Cost-Based Pricing and Markups with Variable Costs Compu Services provides computerized inventory consulting. The office and computer expenses are $400,000 annually and are not assigned to specific jobs. The consulting hours available for the year total 20,000, and the average consulting hour has $20 of variable costs.

Oz makes lion food out of giraffe and gazelle meat. giraffe meat has 18 grams of protein and 36 grams of fat per pound, while gazelle meat has 36 grams of protein and 18 grams of fat per pound. a batch of lion food must contain at least "46,800" grams of protein and 70,200 grams of fat. giraffe meat costs $1/pound and gazelle meat costs $2/pound. how many pounds of each should go into each batch of lion food in order to minimize costs? hint [see example 2.]