Manufacturing Vitamin Pills A pharmaceutical company has 300 kg of vitamin C and 220 kg

Chapter 4, Problem 5

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Manufacturing Vitamin Pills A pharmaceutical company has 300 kg of vitamin C and 220 kg of calcium available each day for the manufacture of high-potency, antioxidant vitamins and vitamins enriched with added calcium. If each high-potency vitamin contains, among other things, 500 mg of vitamin C and 40 mg of calcium and generates a profit of $0.10 per tablet, and each calcium-enriched vitamin tablet contains 100 mg of vitamin C and 400 mg of calcium and generates a profit of $0.05 per tablet, how many of each type of vitamin should be manufactured to maximize profit? Source: Centrum Vitamin Supplements

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