The Cosmetic Co. is a company producing a variety of cosmetic creams and lotions.The creams and lotions are sold to a variety of retailers at a price of $23.20 for each jar of face cream and $16.80 for each bottle of body lotion. Each of the products has a variety of ingredients, with the key ones being silk powder, silk amino acids and aloe vera. Six months ago, silk worms were attacked by disease causing a huge reduction in the availability of silk powder and silk amino acids. The Cosmetic Co. had to dramatically reduce production and make part of its workforce, which it had trained over a number of years, redundant.The company now wants to increase production again by ensuring that it uses the limited ingredients available to maximize profits by selling the optimum mix of creams and lotions. Due to the redundancies made earlier in the year, supply of skilled labour is now limited in the short term to 160 hours (9600 minutes) per week, although unskilled labour is unlimited. The purchasing manager is confident that they can obtain 5000 grams of silk powder and 1600 grams of silk amino acids per week. All other ingredients are unlimited. The following information is available for the two products:

Each jar of cream sold generates a contribution of $9 per unit, whilst each bottle of lotion generates a contribution of $8 per unit. The maximum demand for lotions is 2000 bottles per week, although demand for creams is unlimited. Fixed costs total $1800 per week. The company does not keep inventory although if a product is partially complete at the end of one week, its production will be completed in the following week.

Required:(a) On the graph paper provided, use linear programming to calculate the optimum number of each product that the Cosmetic Co. should make per week, assuming that it wishes to maximize contribution. Calculate the total contribution per week for the new production plan. All workings MUST be rounded to two decimal places.(b) Calculate the shadow price for silk powder and the slack for silk amino acids. All workings MUST be rounded to two decimal places.

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Lotion Cream Materials required: silk powder (at $2.20 per gram) - silk amino acids (at $0.80 per gram) - aloe vera (at $1.40 per gram) Labour required: skilled ($12 per hour) - unskilled (at $8 per hour) 2 grams 3 grams 0.5 grams 2 grams 5 minutes 1.5 minutes 1 gram 4 grams 4 minutes 3 minutes