The management of the Bovill Mukluk Factory (BMF) has decided to expand its prod
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The management of the Bovill Mukluk Factory (BMF) has decided to expand its product mix. Market research studies have focused on diversifying the product line. BMF has decided to produce two lines of laptop computer cases: X-gens & Yeepies. Production is simple - cutting & sewing only. Assume this is a one day plan and they can sell all that are produced during the day. Contribution to profit is $30 per case for X-gens and $80 for Yeepies.
Production Constraints: Cutting Sewing
X-gens 3 hrs/case 2 hrs/case
Yeepies 2 hrs/case 4 hrs/case
The cutting line can run 1 1/2 shifts per day and the sewing line 2 shifts per day (assume 8 hr per shift).
Management Constraint: The boss’s son who unfortunately attended Bovill State University has just been placed in charge of supervising the Yeepie product line. Despite the BSU degree of your boss, you, as chief analyst, decide to require the production of at least two X-gens cases per day. BMF wants to know the number of X-gens and Yeepies to produce in order to maximize its total profit.
How many of what should we produce per day to maximize profit?
Let x1 = # of X-gen cases to produce; x2 = # of Yeepies to produce
Objective function is to Max $30x1 + $80x2
s.t. Cutting hours 3hrx1 + 2hrx2 <= 12
Sewing hours 2hrx1 + 4hrx2 <= 16
Cases x2 >= 2
X1,x2 >= 0
Explanation / Answer
Solving above given equation we get
X1=2
X1=3
As a solution of above given problem
i.e x-gen=2 per day & yeepies=3 per day maximise given objective function
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