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- December 15, 2020 at 11:21 am #600064
Fong Co is involved in the processing of sheet metal into products A, B and C using three processes, pressing,stretching and rolling.
Information about the three products per meter is as followsProduct A Product B Product C
Selling Price 70.0 60.0 70.0
Variable costs
Materials 3.0 2.5 10.0Labour 10·0 10.0 15.0
Other Factory Costs are all fixed and total $18000000 per year.
Raw material for the sheet metal is first pressed then stretched and finally rolled.The pressing process is the bottleneckProcessing time per meter
Product A Product B Product C
Hours 0.5 0.5 0.4There are 225000hours of pressing time available each year.maximum demand for each product is 200000 metres per year.
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The finance director has just told that the company has employed sufficient labour to work 700000 hours per year,which is sufficient to meet maximum demand.Labour is paid 10$ pr hour.Due to agreements with the unions they pay the amount of labour in fullQUESTION-How many metres of each product should be made per year in order to maximise profit?
Sir how to do this??December 15, 2020 at 2:22 pm #600067Sir don’t bother I got it .Sorry
December 15, 2020 at 3:13 pm #600073I am pleased that you have got it 🙂
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