BSNS 2120-Quantitative Buins Methods Pall 201 3. Telson Sporting Equipuent makes

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BSNS 2120-Quantitative Buins Methods Pall 201 3. Telson Sporting Equipuent makes two different types of baseball glovesa regular model and a catcher's model. The firm has 900 hours of production time avnilable in its cutting and sewing department, 300 hours available in its finishing department, and 6000 minutes available in its packnging and shipping department. The production ime requirements and the revenue contribution per glove are given in the following table: TABLE 1 Production Time (hours) Model Cutting &Sewing; Finishing Packnging&Shipping; Revenue/Glove Regular Model Catcher's Model 1/2 1/3 1/8 1/4 85 3/2 a) Formulate a Linear Programming model to maximize total revenue. Give clear numeric definitions of your decision variables

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Model Cutting and Sewing Finishing Packing n Shipping Revenue Regular 1 0.5 0.125 5 Catcher 1.5 0.33 0.25 8 Model Cutting and Sewing Finishing Packing n Shipping Revenue Regular 500 250 62.5 2500 Catcher 225 50 37.5 1200 Total 725 300 100 3700 Max 900 300 100 Optimal solution Qty Optimal value Ans 1 Regular 500 3700 Catcher 150 As allowable increase is $2 ,then till $10 the same optimal solution remains, as the change is to $9, same optimal solution remains. Ans 2 Optimal solution Qty Optimal value Regular 500 3700 Catcher 150 As allowable decrease is $1 ,then till $4 the optimal solution remains the same. Ans 3 Optimal solution Qty Optimal value Regular 500 3700 Catcher 150 As allowable decrease is 166.67 then till 133.33 the optimal solution remains same, as 200 is more than 133.33 Ans 4 Optimal solution Qty Optimal value Regular 500 3700 Catcher 150 No, as there is another constraint that is limiting, i.e Finishing, so adding additional hours is of no use for only Packing and shipping. It will not increase the optimal solution and it remains the same Ans 5

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