ACME Wood Products manufactures hardwood flooring for the construction industry.

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ACME Wood Products manufactures hardwood flooring for the construction industry. ACME currently produces five different types of flooring. These products are all manufactured at ACME's Spokane Washington plant. To handle occasionally high demand, ACME also outsources production of three of their flooring products to a Canadian manufacturer. ACME uses a linear program for scheduling production and outsourcing. How many decision variables will their linear programming model have?

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

None of the above is true

1.

3

2.

4

3.

5

4.

6

5.

7

6.

8

7.

9

8.

10

9.

None of the above is true

Explanation / Answer

5 decision variables for producing in house, 5 for outsourcing. Hence a total of 10 decision variables will be used.

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