Question No.

: 8
A finished product must weight exactly 150 gms. The two raw material used in manufacturing the
product are A with cost of Rs. 2 per unit and B with a cost of Rs.8 per unit. At least 14 units of B
and not more than 20 units of A must be used. Each unit of A and B weighs 5 and 10 gms
respectively. How many of each type of raw material should be used for each unit of the final
product in order to minimize the cost?

Solution:

Let, X1 denote the number of type A raw material and X2 denotes the number of type B raw material
to be used for each unit of the final product.
The above question can be formulated as below:
Table:…. Showing the formulation of above information

X1 X2 RHS Equation form

Minimize 2 8 Min 2X1 + 8X2

Constraint 1 5 10 = 150 5X1 + 10X2 = 150
Constraint 2 1 0 <= 20 X1 <= 20
Constraint 3 0 1 >= 14 X2 >= 14

Following data has been obtained from software:

Phase 1--Iteration 1
Cj 2 8 0 0 0 0
Basic Artificial Slack Artificial Surplus
CB Quantity X₁ X₂
Variables 1 2 3 3
1 artificial 1 150 5 10 1 0 0 0
0 slack 2 20 1 0 0 1 0 0
1 artificial 3 14 0 1 0 0 1 -1
Zj 164 -5 -11 1 0 1 1
cj-zj 5 11 0 0 0 -1
 Iteration 2
Cj 2 8 0 0 0 0
Basic Artificial Slack Artificial Surplus
CB Quantity X₁ X₂
Variables 1 2 3 3
1 artifical 1 10 5 0 1 0 -10 10
0 slack 2 20 1 0 0 1 0 0
0 X2 14 0 1 0 0 1 -1
Zj 10 -5 0 1 0 12 -10
cj-zj 5 0 0 0 -11 10

Iteration 3
Cj 2 8 0 0 0 0
Basic Artificial Slack Artificial Surplus
CB Quantity X₁ X₂
Variables 1 2 3 3
0 surplus 3 1 0.5 0 0.1 0 -1 1
0 slack 2 20 1 0 0 1 0 0
0 X2 15 0.5 1 0.1 0 0 0
Zj 0 0 0 2 0 2 0
cj-zj 0 0 -1 0 -1 0

Iteration 4
Cj 2 8 0 0 0 0
Basic Artificial Slack Artificial Surplus
CB Quantity X₁ X₂
Variables 1 2 3 3
2 X1 2 1 0 0.2 0 -2 2
0 slack 2 18 0 0 -0.2 1 2 -2
8 X2 14 0 1 0 0 1 -1
Zj 116 2 8 -0.4 0 -4 4
cj-zj 0 0 0.4 0 4 -4

Using software, the following final values are obtained:

Variable Status Value

X1 Basic 2
X2 Basic 14
Artificial 1 NON-Basic 0
slack 2 Basic 18
surplus 3 NON-Basic 0
Optimal Value (Z) 116
Interpretation:
The values above signify that 2 units of Product A and 14 units of Product B should be produced
in order to incur minimum cost of Rs. 116. Further, the slack value of 18 units signifies that 18
units of Product A have been underutilized.