A company with manufacturing plants in California and Texas has labor-hour and wage requirements for the manufacture of two inexpensive calculators as given in matrices M and N below:

(A) Find the labor cost for producing one model B calculator at the California plant.

(B) Discuss possible interpretations of the elements in the matrix products MN and NM.

(C) If either product MN or NM has a meaningful interpretation, find the product and label its rows and columns.

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Labor-hours per calculator Assembly department department department Fabricating Packaging [0.15 hr 0.05 hr] Model A 0.05 hr] Model B 0.10 hr M = 0.25 hr 0.20 hr Hourly wages California Texas plant plant $12 $10 Fabricating department $15 $12 Assembly department Packaging department N = $ 7 $ 6 %24