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Formulate an LPP from a word problem

This type of question, asked 3 times: 26 Apr 2025 S2, 19 Apr 2026 S2, 12 May 2026 S1. All 3 questions below, oldest first.

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  1. Question 1

    26 Apr 2025 S2

    146
    A manufacturing company produces two items, A and B. Each toy should be processed by two machines, I and II. Machine I can be operated for maximum 10 hours 40 minutes. It takes 20 minutes for an item of A and 15 minutes for B. Machine II can be operated for a total time at 8 hours 20 minutes. It takes 5 minutes for an item A and 8 minutes for B . The profit per item of AA is ₹ 25 and per item of BB is ₹ 18 . The formulation of an L.P.P. to maximize the profit (where xx is number of items A and yy is the number of item BB ) is

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  2. Question 2

    19 Apr 2026 S2

    96
    An airplane can carry a maximum of 250250 passengers. A profit of Rs 15001500 is made on each executive class ticket and a profit of Rs 900900 is made on each economy class ticket. The airline reserves at least 3030 seats for executive class. However at least 44 times as many passengers prefer to travel by economy class than by executive class. Let x1x_1 be the number of passengers of executive class and x2x_2 be the number of passengers of economy class. Formulate the LPP in order to maximize the profit for the airline...

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  3. Question 3

    12 May 2026 S1

    97
    A company sells two types of notebooks, A and B. Each notebook requires two processes: printing and binding. Notebook A requires 22 minutes for printing and 11 minute for binding. Notebook B requires 44 minutes for printing and 22 minutes for binding. The company can spend 66 hours on printing and 22 hours on binding. If the profit made on notebooks A and B is Rs. 22 and Rs. 55 respectively, then the Linear Programming Problem (LPP) to maximize the total profit zz is ...

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