OCR FD1 AS 2017 December — Question 2

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFD1 AS (Further Decision 1 AS)
Year2017
SessionDecember
TopicLinear Programming

2 Rahul is decorating a room. He needs to decorate at least \(30 \mathrm {~m} ^ { 2 }\) of the walls using paint, panelling or wallpaper. The cost ( \(\pounds\) ) and the time required (hours) to decorate \(1 \mathrm {~m} ^ { 2 }\) of wall are shown in the table.
\cline { 2 - 3 } \multicolumn{1}{c|}{}CostTime
Paint1.120.50
Panelling4.620.34
Wallpaper1.610.28
Rahul wants to complete decorating the walls in no more than 8 hours and wants to minimise the cost.
Set up an LP formulation for Rahul's problem, defining your variables. You are not required to solve this LP problem.