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The Galaxy Nutrition health-food m vice and support to its customers. As Web site technical consultant, you are plan ega-stor ning to construct an interactive Web page to assist customers in preparing tailored to their nutritional and budgetary requirements. Ideally, the customer w select foods to consider and specify nutritional and/or budgetary constraints e chain provides free online nutritional ad- r would like the Web page to allow the customer to decide whether, for instance, to fin the tool should return the optimal diet meeting those requirements. You would also d the e lowest number of constraints calories, or the diet with the least total carbohydrate After doing a little research, you notice that the kind of problem you are try solve is quite well known and referred to as the diet problem, and that solving ing a little research, you notice that the kind of problem you are trying is the diet Indeed, there are already some problem is a famous example of linear programming. online pages that solve versions of the probler adequate information to assist you as you plan the page ramming. et Prob- S Wiki: OS/ Demo You decide to start on a relatively small scale, starting with a program that uses a list of 10 foods, and minimizes either total caloric intake or total cost and satisfies a small list of requirements. Following is a small part of a table of nutritional infor- mation from the demo at the NEOS Wiki (all the values shown are for a single serving) as well as approximate minimum daily requirements: Price per Total Carbs Dietary Protein Vit C Fiber gIU Serving Calories a 3 Wheat Bread S0.05 65.0 10 124 1.3 Tofu $0.31 88.2 5.5 2.2 9.4 Roast Chicken $0.84 277.4 10.80 Spaghetti w/Sauce$0.78 0 42.2 358.2 12.3 58.311.6 8.2 27.9 1.0 23.5 1.2 69.7 2.2 7.0 Tomato S0.27 25.8 0.4 5.7 1.4 Oranges S0.15 61.6 0.2 15.4 3.1 0 0 Cheddar Cheese S0.25 112.7 9.3 0.4 0 Oatmeal $0.82 145.1 2.3 25.3 4.0 7.7 22.7 0 60 Peanut Butter S0.07 188.5 16.0 6.9 2.1 White Tuna in Water $0.69 115.6 2.0 Minimum Requirements 90 2,200 20 80 5 Source: www.neos-guide.org/NEOS/index.php/Diet Problem Demo Cengage Leaning

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1 ans) our objective in the given scenarios is t minimize the total calories , but rost chicken is giving more calories compared to tofu or tune therefore roast chicken which supplies protein more cheaply than either tofu or tuna doesnot appear in the optimal solution in either scenario

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