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- August 25, 2016 at 3:34 pm #335165
A company makes two products , X and Y , on the same type of direct labour and production capacity per period is restricted to 60,000 direct labour hours. The contribution per unit is $8 for product X and $6 for product Y. The following constraints apply to production and sales:
x <=( less than or equal to) 10000
y <=( less than or equal to) 12000
5x + 4y <=( less than or equal to) 60000
The contribution- maximising out put is to produce ans sell 10000 of X and 2500 of YWhat is the shadow price per direct labour hour and for how many additional hours of labour does this shadow price per hour apply ?
My question is while calculating shadow price why we can’t use y = 12000 for the equation , I tried but it Shows large difference
August 25, 2016 at 4:17 pm #335184I can’t understand what you should want to use y = 12,000 – it would make no sense at all.
To calculate the shadow price of labour you calculate what the production would be if we had 1 extra hour of labour i.e. 60,001 hours of labour in total, and the shadow price is the extra contribution that would then be generated.
With 1 more hour we could produce more units, but we cannot produce more X’s because we are already producing maximum demand. Therefore we would produce more Y’s. Since each Y takes 4 hours of labour, then 1 extra hour would mean we could produce 0.25 more Y’s which would generate an extra 0.25 x $6 = $1.5 contribution. Therefore this is the shadow price.
I do suggest that you watch my free lectures on linear programming. My lectures are a complete free course for Paper F5 and cover everything needed to be able to pass the exam well.
August 29, 2016 at 1:04 am #335853Thank you so much for replying John , your second last paragraph made me clear for my confusion, even I learn shortcut way of calculating shadow price which I was not aware of , thanks again
August 29, 2016 at 6:45 am #335890You are welcome 🙂
November 17, 2016 at 5:01 pm #349632I know how to calculate the shadow price of labour in this question. But how do we calculate the additional hours that this shadow price is applicable for?
November 17, 2016 at 5:43 pm #349654You must watch my free lectures on this – I cannot type out all of my lectures here 🙂
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