Main question:

How much excess production capacity does LongLife have? How much would it cost

LongLife to produce and ship 5000 more LL-mod-A battery packs? Five thousand more LL-

mod-B battery packs Five thousand more LL-mod-C battery packs?

Group Case - LongLife, LLC LongLife, LLC manufactures rechargeable batteries for the personal and recreational drone industry. The company signed a contract with Best Buy electronics to produce three different lithium-ion battery packs for a new line of retail drones. LongLife agreed to supply 200,000 battery packs of their LL-mod-A; 100,000 batteries of their LL-mod-B and 150,000 batteries of LL-mod-C. LongLife manufactures the battery packs at plants located in China and South Korea. Each plant can manufacture up to 230,000 battery packs next year. The unit cost of the battery packs differs at the two plants because of differences in production equipment and wage rates. The unit costs for each battery pack at each manufacturing plant are as follows: Product China South Korea LL-mod-A 5.95 5.98 LL-mod-B 5.98 6.08 LL-mod-C 6.34 6.15 The LL-mod-A and LL-mod-B battery packs are produced using similar production equipment available at both plants. However, each plant has a limited capacity for the total number of LL- mod-A and LL-mod-B battery packs produced. The combined LL-mod-A and LL-mod-B production capacities are 175,000 units at the China plant and 160,000 units at the South Korea plant. The LL-mod-C production capacities are 75,000 units at the China plant and 100,000 units at the South Korea plant. The cost of shipping from the China plant is $0.18 per unit, and the cost of shipping from the South Korea plant is $0.10 per unit