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Homework 1: Solve the following problem. Your solution must be hand-written

Homewood masonry is a small owner-operated firm that produces construction materials for
the residential and commercial construction industry in the region. The company specializes in
the manufacture of two widely used building materials: (1) a universal concrete patching
material called HYDIT and (2) a decorative brick mortar called FILIT. Homewood can sell all of
the HYDIT it produces for a profit of $140 per ton, and all the FILIT it can produce for a profit
of $160 per ton. Unfortunately, some of the resources needed to manufacture these products
are in limited supply. The production of both HYDIT and FILIT require a red clay known as
Wabash Red Clay. Each ton of HYDIT produced requires 2m3 of this clay, and each ton of FILIT
produced requires 4m3. A maximum of 28m3 of the clay is available each week for production.
Secondly, the operator of the machine used in blending the products can work only a maximum
of 50hrs per week. The machine blends a ton of either product at a time, and the blending
process requires 5hrs to complete for each. Lastly, each material must be stored in a separate
vat, further limiting the overall production volume of each product. The curing vats for HYDIT
and for FILIT have capacities of 8 and 6 tons, respectively. Formulate a mathematical model
that can be used to determine how many of each product should be produced.
(1a) Define your decision variables here

Number
of HYDIT to be producedGli
Number of FILI to be produced 64

(1b) Write your objective function here

objective to maximize total profit
profit a 4140M t 416012

(1c) Formulate your constraints here

2x t 4288 1st constraint

542 50 2nd constraint

5x constraint
3rd
s8 sG
Non negativity constraint

XpSO i x SO