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Nutrition

In a hospital ward, the patients can be grouped into two general categories depending on their conditions and the amounts of solid foods they require in their diet. A combination of two diets is used for solid foods because they supply essential nutrients for recovery, but each diet has an amount of a substance deemed detrimental. For each patient group, the following table summarizes the diet requirements and the amounts of the detrimental substance. How many servings from each diet should be given each day in order to minimize the intake of this detrimental substance?

Required

Diet A

Diet B

Daily

Group 1

4 oz per

1 oz per

26 oz

serving

serving

Group 2

2 oz per

1 oz per

18 oz

serving

serving

Detrimental

0.18 oz per

0.07 oz per

substance

serving

serving