Question: R 1 . You have opened a bakery beside MacEwan University. You produce 4 products: cakes, cookies, bread, and pastries. Here, 1 unit of cookie

R1. You have opened a bakery beside MacEwan University. You produce 4 products: cakes, cookies, bread, and
pastries. Here, 1 unit of cookie and pastry implies a dozen of each. Each product goes through four processes:
mixing, shaping/forming, baking, and cooling/packaging. The amount of each product demanded each day, and
the profit margin is as follows:
Demand and profit information for each of four products
Cookies Cake Pastry Bread
Demand (units/day)40203030
Margin ($/unit)15351214
Each unit of each product requires the following machine time (in hours).
Cookie Cake Pastry Bread
Mixing 0.250.50.30.2
Shaping/Forming 0.30.750.50.25
Baking 0.31.000.40.5
Cooling/packaging 0.20.50.250.3
a) Assume the daily process capacity of each process, given the constraints on labor and machines are: Mixing
=36 hours (3 mixing stations running 12 hours per day), Shaping 56 hours (7 stations running 8 hours per
day), Baking =50 hours (5 ovens at 10 hours per day), and cooling 40 hours (4 cooling stations running 10
hours per day). Is there the capacity to meet the entire demand for all four products? (i.e., find the aggregate
workload for each product).(6 points)

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