A Furniture Store Produces Beds and Desks for College Students

question 37

Essay

A furniture store produces beds and desks for college students.The production process requires assembly and painting.Each bed requires 6 hours of assembly and 4 hours of painting.Each desk requires 4 hours of assembly and 8 hours of painting.There are 40 hours of assembly time and 45 hours of painting time available each week.Each bed generates $35 of profit and each desk generates $45 of profit.As a result of a labor strike,the furniture store is limited to producing at most 8 beds each week.Determine how many beds and desks should be produced each week to maximize weekly profits.

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Definitions:

Habituation

Tendency of the brain to stop attending to constant, unchanging information.

Learned Helplessness

A condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from traumatic events or persistent failure to succeed. It is thought to be one of the underlying causes of depression.

Contingency Blocking

A phenomenon in classical conditioning where a subject learns to associate a particular stimulus with an outcome, blocking the learning of an association with a new stimulus presented at the same time.

Response Generalization

The process by which a learned response is applied to similar stimuli beyond the original conditioned stimulus.