Cardinal Dry Cleaners Has 400 Hours a Week Available to Use

question 15

Essay

Cardinal Dry Cleaners has 400 hours a week available to use in dry cleaning or laundry.Four thousand centimetres of hanging space is available.The average item that is dry cleaned takes 6 inches of hanging space,whereas laundry items take up only 3 inches of hanging space.The contribution margin for laundry items averages $3.50; dry cleaned items average $6.50.Fifty items can be washed per hour,whereas only 20 can be dry cleaned.
a.Determine the objective function.Is it a minimization or maximization function?
b.Set up the constraint equations.

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