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Dustin Co. makes three products, A, B and C.
They have a constrained resource - machine hours. There are only 17,459 machine hours available a month.
The three products have the following data:
A | B | C | |
Selling Price per unit | 6.00 | 16.00 | 11.00 |
Variable Cost per unit | 2.00 | 4.00 | 6.00 |
Machine hours required | 2 | 4 | 5 |
Demand for product in units | 1,171 | 3,934 | 1,021 |
How much of product B should be produced?
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