Question: Problem - 1 . S S C sells two snow ski models - Jordanelle & Deercrest. Manufacturing requires fabrication and finishing. The fabrication department has

Problem-1.
S S C sells two snow ski models - Jordanelle & Deercrest.
Manufacturing requires fabrication and finishing.
The fabrication department has 11 skilled workers, each of whom works 7 hours per day. The
finishing department has 3 workers, who also work a 7-hour shift.
Each pair of Jordanelle skis requires 3.5 labor-hours in the fabricating department and 1 labor-
hour in finishing.
The Deercrest model requires 4 labor-hours in fabricating and 1.5 labor-hours in finishing.
The company operates 5 days per week.
The company anticipates selling at least twice as many Deercrest models as Jordanelle models
S S C makes a net profit of $50 on the Jordanelle model and $65 on the Deercrest model.
Maximize the total profit
Instruction:
1. Use the SklenkaSkis.xlsx dataset (in the assignment 3 module)
2. Follow the lecture and slides to find constraint (note that in this problem, there are 11 workers
in fabrication department while there were 12 workers in the problem we solved in the class).
You can see the lecture recording in canvas-media gallery.
Submissions:
1. Give the screenshot of your output (also screenshot of answer report and sensitivity report)
2. What is the shadow price and What does it mean?
3. What is the reduced cost and what does it mean?

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