Question

1. A rowing coach is planning a snack of graham crackers and blueberry yogurt for the team.The coach wants to make sure the snack contains no more than 700 calories and 20 grams of fat.The coach also wants the snack to contain at least 17 grams of protein and 30% of the dailyrecommended value of iron. The nutritional content of each food is listed below. Each servingof yogurt costs $0.30 and each graham cracker costs $0.06. What combination of servings ofgraham crackers and blueberry yogurt should provide the coach with the minimum cost?

Answer 1

Let the graham crackers be G

Let the blueberry yogurt be B

Thus, the combination of the variables above are listed below

$\begin{gathered} G+B\leq700 \\ G+B\leq20 \\ G+B\ge17 \\ G+B\ge0.3 \end{gathered}$