Question

2. You are placing mulch in your yard, and you find that pine chips cost $5 per bag, while oak chips cost $2 per bag. You want to minimize total cost. Let x be the number of bags of pine chips and y be the number of bags of oak chips. Define the objective function for this problem.c =

Answer 1

Solution

Let x be the number of bags of pine chips and y be the number of bags of oak chips.

You find that pine chips cost $5 per bag, while oak chips cost $2 per bag.

The minimized total cost is

$\min c=5x+2y$