Orange Sun Manufacturing, Inc. produces high quality sunglasses which are marketed and sold under various brand names. The production engineers have determined that each line employee accounts for approximately 10 units per labor hour. If employees work an average of 2000 hours per year, and projected sales for 2017 are 9.5 million units, how many line employees will we need for the coming year? (show you work)

2016	Vice Presidents	Managers	Supervisors	Sales Staff	Line Employees	Exit the Company
Vice (10) Presidents	8 (.80)					2 (.20)
Managers (25)	2 (.08)	18 (.72)				5 (.20)
Supervisors (45)		5 (.11)	26 (.58)	4 (.9)		10 (.22)
Sales Staff (150)		1 (<.01)	7 (.05)	117 (.78)		25 (.17)
Line (450) Employees			3 (<.01)	25 (.06)	322 (.72)	100 (.22)
Anticipated Labor Supply	10	24	36	147	322	142

Probabilities are in parentheses

2. Based on the availabilities in the Markov table above, and the value you calculated in question 1, how many line employees will we need to hire this year to meet estimated demand?