As a Supervisor of a Production Department, You Must Decide

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Essay

As a supervisor of a production department, you must decide the daily production totals of a certain product that has two models, the Deluxe and the Special.The profit on the Deluxe model is $12 per unit, and the Special's profit is $10.Each model goes through two phases in the production process, and there are only 100 hours available daily at the construction stage and only 80 hours available at the finishing and inspection stage.Each Deluxe model requires 20 minutes of construction time and 10 minutes of finishing and inspection time.Each Special model requires 15 minutes of construction time and 15 minutes of finishing and inspection time.The company has also decided that the Special model must comprise at most 60 percent of the production total.
Formulate this as a linear programming problem.

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Definitions:

Net Loss

The amount by which expenses exceed revenues.

Adjustments

These are entries made in accounting to record expenses that have occurred but are not accurately represented in the financial statements at the end of the accounting period.

Journal

A detailed record where all financial transactions of a business are initially recorded before being summarized in the ledger.

Ledger

A ledger is a comprehensive collection of accounts used in accounting to record and summarize all financial transactions.