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PLEASE ONLY SOLVE IN EXCEL. SHOW ALL FORMULAS FOR ALL VALUES AND SHOW ALL WORK. I WILL PROVIDE A LIKE: Question 3(20 points)
The Yeasty Brewing Company Produces a popular local beer known as Iron Stomach.
Beer sales are somewhat seasonal, and Yeasty is planning its production and workforce
levels on March 31 for the next six months. The demand forecasts are as follows:
As of March 31, Yeasty had 60 workers on the payroll. Over a period of 25 working days
when there are 120 workers on the pay roll, Yeasty produced 18,000 cases of beer. The
cost to hire each worker is $150 and the cost of laying off each worker is $300. Holding
costs amount to 1.2 dollar per case per month.
As of March 31, Yeasty expects to have 3,200 cases of beer in stock. It plans to start
October with 3,700 cases on hand.
a) Formulate the problem of planning Yeasty's production levels as a linear
program. ON EXCEL ONLY
b) Use Excel solver to solve the problem and give the solution (decision variables
and objective value)
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