Super Tech is a large Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) that builds electron

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Super Tech is a large Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) that builds electronic equipment on behalf of other companies, who design and sell the equipment. It has factories in Seoul (Korea, Dubai (UAE) and Warsaw (Poland). Super Tech manufactures tablet computers and has just received a new order for 5000 tablets that needs to be completed each week (with the contract running for many months). The tablets come in two sizes: "Small" and "Large with three different storage capacities: 16GB, 64GB and 128GB, and two different Internet-connectivity chipsets wifi-only" and "wifi +cellular". The breakdown of the order into product types is shown in the table below, where the productID can be understood as follows: S/L denotes the size (Small vs. Large), W/C denotes the connectivity ("wifi-only" vs. "wifitcellular" and the number denotes the storage capacity ProductID Demand Assembly Time SW-16 1000 15 400 SW-64 16 SW-128 400 17 400 SC-16 15 SC-64 200 16 SC-128 17 200 LW-16 20 1000 LW-64 300 21 LW-128 300 22 400 LC-16 20 21 LC-64 200 LC-128 22 200 Producing each tablet requires both assembling and testing of the unit. The average time (in minutes) taken by a skilled factory worker to assemble each tablet is shown in the table above. The time taken to test each tablet is 5 minutes for wifi-only tablets and 10 minutes for wifitcellular tablets since the cellular connectivity must also be tested)

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