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Puck and Pawn Company Which Manufactures Hockey Sticks and Chess Sets
Puck and Pawn Company Which Manufactures Hockey Sticks and Chess Sets
Each
hockey stick yields an incremental profit of $2 and each chess set $4. A hockey stick
requires four hours of processing at machine center A and two hours at machines
center B. A chess set requires six hours at machine center A, six hours at machine
center B and one hour at machine center C. Machine center A has a maximum of
120 hours of available capacity perday Madchine center B has 72 hours and
machine center C has 10 hours.If the company wishes to maximize profit, how many
hockey sticks and chess sets should be produced per day?
The given problem is formulated as a L.P.P as follows:
Maximize Z = $ 2H + $ 4C
Subject to constraints:
4H + 6C 120
2H + 6C 72
IC 10
H,C0
Solve the problem using Simplex method?