Answer:
They should operate Mine 1 for 1 hour and Mine 2 for 3 hours to meet the contractual obligations and minimize cost.
Explanation:
The formulation of the linear programming is:
Objective function:
Restrictions:
- High-grade ore:
- Medium-grade ore:
- Low-grade ore:
- No negative hours:
We start graphing the restrictions in a M1-M2 plane.
In the figure attached, we have the feasible region, where all the restrictions are validated, and the four points of intersection of 2 restrictions.
In one of this four points lies the minimum cost.
Graphically, we can graph the cost function over this feasible region, with different cost levels. When the line cost intersects one of the four points with the lowest level of cost, this is the optimum combination.
(NOTE: it is best to start with a low guessing of the cost and going up until it reaches one point in the feasible region).
The solution is for the point (M1=1, M2=3), with a cost of C=$680.
The cost function graph is attached.
Learning strategy is the <u>independent </u>variable and word retention is the <u>dependent </u>variable.
A dependent variable is the thing that is being measured or tested by changes in the independent variable. Spurling wanted to test how word retention <em>depended </em>on different learning strategies.
The answers are the following:
a.
Brandon:
$7,000 + [($10,000/4)×3¿= $8,500
Ryan:
$7,000 + [($10,000/4)×1¿= $7,500
b.
Brandon $7,000
Ryan <span>$7,000</span>
Answer is 67.
As, 6+ 7
= 13
Also, when 67 is interchanged(76), the original no. is increased by 9.
The D/E ratio indicates how much debt a company is using to finance its assets relative to the value of shareholders' equity