Project Name : Mathematics and Everyday Life
Theme Name : Mathematics in Everyday Life
Our aim is to tackle the issues of poverty, malnutrition and limited availability of food stuffs by figuring out a diet that will provide us with all the nutrition we want at the lowest possible cost. Here we use the graphical method of linear programming to solve this issue. We took
some of the easily as well as the cheaply available staple food stuffs wheat, rice, dhal, vegetables, mixed in certain fixed ratio. Population can be divided into four categories depending upon their daily calorific requirement – 1900, 2200, 2800, 3400 based on the type of their work – light work, medium work and heavy work (man and woman in each case). Considering other nutrients as constraints and market values as objective functions we arrived at conclusions that a combination of rice dhal must be consumed to satisfy daily nutritional needs of the four categories at the lowest rate.
Name of the School: Bhavan’s Newsprint Vidyalaya
