A Company That Makes the Rocket Widget Has One Machine

question 9

Multiple Choice

A company that makes the rocket widget has one machine capable of producing this unique item.The machine requires an attendant,who works 40 hours a week for $12 per hour and has made himself available for a maximum of 8 hours of overtime.It costs $20 per hour to run the machine and it is capable of producing 10,000 rocket widgets per hour.The widgets sell for $10 per hundred and cost $1 per hundred in materials.If the production manager wishes to develop a sales and operations plans using an optimization model,which of the following statements is valid?

• A)The objective function should limit overtime to less than 8 hours per week.
• B)The objective function should maximize the amount of rocket widgets produced.
• C)The objective function must be to minimize costs.
• D)None of these statements will help plan production using optimization modeling.

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Definitions:

Observations

Specific instances of data collected or noticed during an experiment or study.

Quadratic Model

A statistical model used to describe a relationship between a response variable and one or more predictor variables where the relationship is parabolic.

Interaction Term

An additional term in a statistical model that represents the effect on the response variable of combining two or more variables.

SSE

Sum of Squared Errors, a measure of the discrepancy between the data and an estimation model.