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Tom's, Inc., produces various Mexican food products and sells them to Western Foods, a chain of grocery Enter question
stores located in Texas and New Mexico. Tom's, Inc., makes two salsa products: Western Foods Salsa and
Mexico City Salsa. Essentially, the two products have different blends of whole tomatoes, tomato sauce,
and tomato paste. The Western Foods Salsa is a blend of 50% whole tomatoes, 30% tomato sauce, and
20% tomato paste. The Mexico City Salsa, which has a thicker and chunkier consistency, consists of 70%
whole tomatoes, 10% tomato sauce, and 20% tomato paste. Each jar of salsa produced weighs 10 ounces. Continue to post
For the current production period, Tom's, Inc., can purchase up to 280 pounds of whole tomatoes, 130
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pounds of tomato sauce, and 100 pounds of tomato paste; the price per pound for these ingredients is
$0.96, $0.64, and $0.56, respectively. The cost of the spices and the other ingredients is approximately
$0.10 per jar. Tom's, Inc., buys empty glass jars for $0.02 each, and labeling and lling costs are estimated
to be $0.03 for each jar of salsa produced. Tom's contract with Western Foods results in sales revenue of
$1.64 for each jar of Western Foods Salsa and $1.93 for each jar of Mexico City Salsa. Snap a photo from your
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Letting We'll send you a one-time downloa
W = jars of Western Foods Salsa link
M = jars of Mexico City Salsa
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leads to the following formulation:
Max 1W + 1.25M By providing your phone number, you agree to receive a one-
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s.t. messaging rates may apply.
5W + 7M ? 4480   Whole tomatoes
3W + 1M ? 2080   Tomato sauce
2W + 2M ? 1600   Tomato paste
W, M ? 0
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The sensitivity report is shown in gure below.
Optimal Objective Value =      860.00000

Variable Value Reduced Cost

W 560.00000 0.00000
M 240.00000 0.00000
Power... Engineering... Surveying..
Constraint Slack/Surplus Dual Value
1 0.00000 0.12500 1st Edition 8th Edition 7th Edition
2 160.00000 0.00000 View all solutions
3 0.00000 0.18750
Variable Objective
Coefficient
Allowable
Increase
Allowable
Decrease

W 1.00000 0.25000 0.10714

M 1.25000 0.15000 0.25000

Constraint RHS
Value
Allowable
Increase
Allowable
Decrease

1 4480.00000 1120.00000 160.00000

2 2080.00000 In nite 160.00000
3 1600.00000 40.00000 320.00000
What is the optimal solution, and what are the optimal production quantities?
W
M
Pro t $  

Specify the objective coefficient ranges. Round your answers to three decimal places. If there is no lower or
upper limit, then enter the text "NA" as your answer.
Variable Objective Coefficient Range
lower limit Upper limit
Western Foods Salsa
Mexico City Salsa

What are the shadow prices for each constraint? Round your answers to three decimal places.
Constraint Shadow Price
Whole tomatoes
Tomato sauce
Tomato paste

Interpret each shadow price.

The shadow price is the value that the will change by if you increase the constraint by one unit.

Whole tomatoes have a shadow price of which means that if we add one pound of whole tomatoes the
value of the objective function would .

Tomato sauce has a shadow price of which means that if we add one pound of tomato sauce the value of
the objective function would .

Tomato paste has a shadow price of which means that if we add one pound of tomato paste the value of
the objective function would .

Constraints with a shadow price of 0 means that .

Identify each of the right-hand-side ranges. If there is no lower or upper limit, then enter the text "NA" as
your answer.
Constraint Right-Hand-Side Range
lower limit upper limit
Whole tomatoes
Tomato sauce
Tomato paste

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Formulation of linear program is as follows

Optimal using using Excel Solver is as follows

Optimal mix: Jars of Western Salsa = 560

Jars of Mexico Salsa = 240

Total pro t = $ 860

Formulas used in the spreadsheet are following

 Objective coefficient ranges:

Variable Objective
coefficient
range

Lower Upper
limit limit

Western Foods 0.89286 1.25

Salsa

Mexico City Salsa 1 1.4

Constraint Shadow
price

Whole Tomatoes 0.125

Tomato Sauce 0

Tomato Paste 0.1875

The shadow price is the value that the objective function will change by if you increase the constraint by
one unit.

Whole tomatoes have a shadow price of 0.125 which means that if we add one pound of whole tomatoes
the value of the objective function would increase by 0.125.

Tomato sauce has a shadow price of 0 which means that if we add one pound of tomato sauce the value
of the objective function would remain unchanged.

Tomato paste has a shadow price of 0.1875 which means that if we add one pound of tomato paste the
value of the objective function would increase by 0.1875.

Constraints with a shadow price of 0 means that objective function would notnchange with additional unit
of resource.

Constraint Right-
Hand-
Side
Range

Lower Upper
limit limit

Whole tomatoes 4320 5600

Tomato sauce 1920 in nite

Tomato paste 1280 1640

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