Question: A B D E F G H 1 Mary is the production manager for the XYZ Co., which produces three types of spare parts for

A B D E F G H 1 Mary is the production manager

A B D E F G H 1 Mary is the production manager for the XYZ Co., which produces three types of spare parts for automobiles. The 2 manufacture of each part requires processing on each of two machines, with the following processing times (in hours). 3 4 5 6 Machine 1 7 Machine 2 8 Part A Part B Part C 0.02 0.03 0.05 0.05 0.02 0.04 9 Each machine is available 40 hours per month. Each part manufactured will yield a unit profit as follows: 10 Part A Part B Part C 11 Profit $50 $40 $30 12 Mary wants to determine the mix of spare parts to produce in order to maximize total profit. Formulate a linear 13 programming model for this problem and use Excel Solver to obtain the optimal solution that maximizes the total profit. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

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