A company manufactures 3 products: a, b, and c, which sell for $14, $15, and $22 per unit, respectively. These prices are constant and independent of the market state they are addressed to, and it is also supposed that any produced quantity can be sold. For the manufacturing of these products, four types of raw materials are required. The prices of raw materials, the raw material units needed for each product type, and the corresponding available quantities within a certain time period are included in the following table.
Raw material Unit price of raw materials The raw material units needed for each product type Available raw material units
Product a $1 2 50
Product b $2 2 200
Product c $3 4 200
Product a $0.5 4 200
Product b $0 0 100
The company's goal is to determine the quantities of each product which should be produced in order to achieve the highest profit.
Define in detail the decision variables and form the objective function and all constraints of the problem. Formulate a linear programming model that can be used to determine the quantities of each product which should be produced in order to achieve the highest profit. (Do NOT need to find the optimal solution. You just need to form the linear programming model. (10 marks)