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Operations Management Homework 6 Task 1 : Chapter 9: 9.9 (30 points) Task 2 : Linear Programming A farmer has 10 acres to plant wheat and barley. He must plant at least 7 acres. However, he has only $1200 to spend; each acre of wheat costs $200 to plant, and each acre of barley costs $100. Moreover, the farmer must get the planting done in 12 hours and it takes an hour to plant an acre of wheat and 2 hours to plant an acre of barley. If the profit is $500 per acre of wheat and $300 per acre of barley how many acres of each should be planted to maximize profits? Construct the Linear Programming model (40 points) Solve for the optimal answer using the Excel Solver (Please submit your Excel Solver file to D2L) (30 points)
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