Deluxe River Cruises operates a fleet of river vessels. The fleet has two types of vessels: a type A, x, vessci has 60 deluxe cabins and 16C standard cabins, whereas a type B vessel, y, has 80 deluxe cabins and 120 standard cabins. Under a charter agreement with the Odyssey Travel Agency, Deluxe River Cruises is to provide Odyssey with a minimum of 360 deluxe and 680 standard cabins for their 15-day cruise in May. It costs $58,000 to operate a type A vessel and $54,000 to operate a type B vessel for that period. (a) How many of each type of vessel should be used to keep the operating costs C to a minimum? The minimum is C = at (x, y) = 1 (b) Suppose C = cx + 54,000y. Find the range of values that the cost of operating a type A vessel, the coefficient c of x, can assume without changing the optimal solution. scs (c) Find the range of values that Requirement 1 for deluxe cabins can assume. (Requirement 1 pertains to the deluxe cabin requirement.) s (Requirement 1) s (d) Find the shadow price for Requirement 1 for d

A bus system needs to be set up from Village of Westmont to Hinsdale (2.5 miles), then continues to Berwyn (8.5 miles), and finally terminates its run to Cicero (1 mile). The operating time is 55 minutes, the policy headway is 30 minutes, and the minimum terminal time is 19 minutes (including 6 minutes terminal time at each location of Clarendon Hills and Berwyn, and 7 minutes at Cicero). It has been established that the peak-hour demand is 500 passengers per hour and 50-seater buses are available, which can safely accommodate 25 standees. Assume the load factor is 0.8. Design the bus system

SkyChefs, Incorporated, prepares in-flight meals for a number of major airlines. One of the company's products is grilled salmon with new potatoes and mixed vegetables. During the most recent week, the company prepared 4,000 of these meals using 960 direct labor- hours. The company paid its direct labor workers a total of $19,200 for this work, or $20.00 per hour. According to the standard cost card for this meal, it should require 0.25 direct labor-hours at a cost of $19.75 per hour. Required: 1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to prepare 4,000 meals? 2. What is the standard labor cost allowed (SH x SR) to prepare 4,000 meals? 3. What is the labor spending variance? 4. What is the labor rate variance and the labor efficiency variance?

Agan Interior Design provides home and office decorating assistance to its customers. In normal operation, an average of 2.4 customers arrive each hour. One design consultant is available to answer customer questions and make product recommendations. The consultant averages 10 minutes with each customer. Agan's management would like to evaluate two alternatives: 1. Use one consultant with an average service time of 7 minutes per customer. 2. Expand to two consultants, each of whom has an average service time of 10 minutes per customer. If the consultants are paid $17 per hour and the customer waiting time is valued at $28 per hour, should Agan expand to the two-consultant system? Explain. (Express the total cost per hour in dollars. Round your answers to the nearest cent.) The total service cost per hour, i.e. the time value of consultant and customer together, is $[ x for scenario 1, and $ for scenario 2. The business should implement the lower total cost scenario, which is scenario…