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Formulation of LP to minimize Steelco’s costs:
From the information given, observe that during the next 3 months, steeco faces has three demands for steel.
Consider the following terms:
Now, the one can write the following equations,
Here,
Objective function:
The objective function as follows,
Minimize
Subject to the constraints,
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