Diet problems In these problems, we determine the amount of different kinds
of constituents/nutrients which should be included in a diet so as to minimise the
cost of the desired diet such that it contains a certain minimum amount of each
constituent/nutrients 3 Transportation problems In these problems, we determine a transportation
schedule in order to find the cheapest way of transporting a product from
plants/factories situated at different locations to different markets © NCERT
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Let us now solve some of these types of linear programming problems:
Example 6 (Diet problem): A dietician wishes to mix two types of foods in such a
way that vitamin contents of the mixture contain atleast 8 units of vitamin A and 10
units of vitamin C