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D Question 18 5 pts Answer the following question using the output below. What a

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D Question 18 5 pts Answer the following question using the output below. What are the binding constraints? Variable Cells Final Reduced Objective Allowable Allowable Value Cost Coefficient Increase Decrease Name Hot Salsa Mild Salsa 560 240 0 0.250.107 0 1.25 1.15 3.25 Constraints Final Shadow Constraint Allowable Allowable Value PriceR.H.Side Increase Decrease Name Whole Tomatoes 4480 0.125 Tomato Sauce 160 160 320 1120 1920 1600 0 0.188 4480 20801E+30 1600 Tomato Paste 40 O Whole tomatoes Tomato paste O Tomato sauce O Both Whole tomatoes & Tomato paste O All of the constraints are binding Previous Next is sharing your screen with app.honorlock.com. Stop sharing Hide

Explanation / Answer

From the given output we see the shadow price for tomato sauce is 0, this means change in the contrainst of tomato sauce will cause no effect on the objective function.
However other 2 contraints affect the objective function as their shadow price is non zero.

Hence both Whole tomatoes and tomato paste are binding contraints