A Company Needs to Purchase Several New Machines to Meet

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Essay

A company needs to purchase several new machines to meet its future production needs.It can purchase three different types of machines A,B,and C.Each machine A costs $80,000 and requires 2,000 square feet of floor space.Each machine B costs $50,000 and requires 3,000 square feet of floor space.Each machine C costs $40,000 and requires 5,000 square feet of floor space.The machines can produce 200,250 and 350 units per day respectively.The plant can only afford $500,000 for all the machines and has at most 20,000 square feet of room for the machines.The company wants to buy as many machines as possible to maximize daily production.
What values would you enter in the Risk Solver Platform RSP)task pane for the following cells for this Excel spreadsheet implementation of the formulation for this problem?
Objective Cell: Variables Cells: Constraints Cells:

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Definitions:

Disposition

The final settlement or conclusion of a court case or legal matter.

Affirmed

A term used in law to indicate that a decision made at a lower court level is confirmed by a higher court.

Reversed

A legal term referring to a court's decision to overturn or annul a previous judgment or ruling.

Remanded

The act of sending a case back to the original court from which it came for further action or a new trial.