A manufacturing firm is planning to purchase new machines for processing four products it manufactures. Demand information and processing time data for the four products are shown in the following table. Each machine the firm purchases will operate 8 hours per day, for 250 days a year. How many new machines should the company purchase to meet its capacity requirements?

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Standard Processing Time Annual Demand Product (in hours per unit) 300 5.0 500 4.0 750 8.0 D. 675 2.0