The Electrocomp Corporation manufactures two electricalproducts

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The Electrocomp Corporation manufactures two electricalproducts: air conditioners and large fans. The assemblyprocess for each is similar in that both requirea certain amount of wiring and drilling. Each air conditionertakes 3 hours of wiring and 2 hours of drilling.Each fan must go through 2 hours of wiring and 1 hourof drilling. During the next production period, 240hours of wiring time are available and up to 140 hoursof drilling time may be used. Each air conditioner soldyields a profit of $25. Each fan assembled may be soldfor a $15 profit. Formulate and solve this LP productionmix situation to find the best combination of airconditioners and fans that yields the highest profit.

Use the corner point graphical approach.


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Electrocomp’s management realizes that it forgot toinclude two critical constraints (see Problem 7-14). Inparticular, management decides that there should be aminimum number of air conditioners produced inorder to fulfill a contract. Also, due to an oversupplyof fans in the preceding period, a limit should beplaced on the total number of fans produced.
(a) If Electrocomp decides that at least 20 air conditionersshould be produced but no more than 80fans should be produced, what would be the optimalsolution? How much slack is there for eachof the four constraints?


(b) If Electrocomp decides that at least 30 air conditionersshould be produced but no more than
50 fans should be produced, what would bethe optimal solution? How much slack is there
for each of the four constraints at the optimalsolution? 

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