Tonys Restaurant is a company that manufactures two types of cooking pans. The forecasted amount of demand for next year for each pan as well as the production requirements are given below. Tony likes to maintain a capacity cushion of 20.6 %. Pan 1Pan 2Forecast of demand (qty)5537038000Processing time (hours)0.10.08Average lot (batch) size100100Setup time (hours)21.5 The pans are produced on a large press machine. A press machine can be configured (setup) to produce either of the two pans. Assume her factory works for 250 days in a year, and there is only one 8-hr shift per working day. How many machines does Aunt Karen need to fulfill demand next year (enter your answer rounded to 2 decimal places)?

Pan 1Pan 2Forecast of demand 5537038000Processing time 0.10.08Average lot size100100Setup time21.5

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Tonys Restaurant is a company that manufactures two types of cooking pans. The forecasted amount of demand for next year for each pan as well as the production requirements are given below. Tony likes to maintain a capacity cushion of 20.6 %.

	Pan 1	Pan 2
Forecast of demand (qty)	55370	38000
Processing time (hours)	0.1	0.08
Average lot (batch) size	100	100
Setup time (hours)	2	1.5

The pans are produced on a large press machine. A press machine can be configured (setup) to produce either of the two pans. Assume her factory works for 250 days in a year, and there is only one 8-hr shift per working day.

How many machines does Aunt Karen need to fulfill demand next year (enter your answer rounded to 2 decimal places)?

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