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Planning with limiting factors

3.1 Step 1: define the variables

Example 2, continued

Let 'x' be the number of units of X to produce

Let 'y' be the number of units of Y to produce

3.2 Step 2: the objective function

Example 2, continued

Objective function: to maximise contribution C = 4x + 8y

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