A materials scientist wishes to formulate a compound that is 20% element X and 80% element Y Several compounds with different proportions of the elements available for different costs The desired compound may be produced by combining some of the other compounds
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Set up a linear programming problem to determine the amounts of the alloys needed to produce the least expensive compound Solve the problem