A food manufacturer is trying to maximize profit by selling wheat-based cereal (C) and wheat bread(B) with raw wheat (W). The production functions are: Cereal: C = 28WC – 1.5WC2 Bread: B = 66WB – 2WB2 Constraint: WC + WB = 7,058 Profit is $1.00 per box of cereal and $0.50 per pack of wheat bread. There are 7,058 units of raw wheat available. How much wheat should go to the cereal (WC)? Enter as a value. ROUND TO THE NEAREST WHOLE NUMBER.

A food manufacturer is trying to maximize profit by selling wheat-based cereal (C) and wheat bread(B) with raw wheat (W). The production functions are: Cereal: C = 28WC – 1.5WC2 Bread: B = 66WB – 2WB2 Constraint: WC + WB = 7,058 Profit is $1.00 per box of cereal and $0.50 per pack of wheat bread. There are 7,058 units of raw wheat available. How much wheat should go to the cereal (WC)? Enter as a value. ROUND TO THE NEAREST WHOLE NUMBER.

Managerial Economics: Applications, Strategies and Tactics (MindTap Course List)

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Publisher:James R. McGuigan, R. Charles Moyer, Frederick H.deB. Harris

ChapterB: Differential Calculus Techniques In Management

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