Better Products, Inc., manufactures three products on two machines. In a typical week, 40 hours are available on each machine. The profit contribution and production time in hours per unit are as follows: Category Profit/unit Machine 1 time/unit Machine 2 time/unit Product 1 Product 2 $30 0.5 1.0 hr hr $50 2.0 1.0 Product 3 $20 0.75 Two operators are required for machine 1-thus, 2 hours of labor must be scheduled for each hour of machine 1 time. Only one operator is required for machine 2. A maximum of 100 labor-hours is available for assignment to the machines during the coming week. Other production requirements are that product 1 cannot account for more than 50% of the units produced and that product 3 must account for at least 20% of the units produced. (c) What is the value (in $) of an additional hour of labor? $ 0.5 (a) How many units of each product should be produced to maximize the total profit contribution? What is the projected weekly profit (in $) associated with your solution? Product 1 Product 2 Product 3 weekly profit $ (b) How many hours of production time will be scheduled on each machine? machine 1 machine 2
Better Products, Inc., manufactures three products on two machines. In a typical week, 40 hours are available on each machine. The profit contribution and production time in hours per unit are as follows: Category Profit/unit Machine 1 time/unit Machine 2 time/unit Product 1 Product 2 $30 0.5 1.0 hr hr $50 2.0 1.0 Product 3 $20 0.75 Two operators are required for machine 1-thus, 2 hours of labor must be scheduled for each hour of machine 1 time. Only one operator is required for machine 2. A maximum of 100 labor-hours is available for assignment to the machines during the coming week. Other production requirements are that product 1 cannot account for more than 50% of the units produced and that product 3 must account for at least 20% of the units produced. (c) What is the value (in $) of an additional hour of labor? $ 0.5 (a) How many units of each product should be produced to maximize the total profit contribution? What is the projected weekly profit (in $) associated with your solution? Product 1 Product 2 Product 3 weekly profit $ (b) How many hours of production time will be scheduled on each machine? machine 1 machine 2
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