(A)Determine How to Minimize the Cost of Meeting the Demand

question 43

Essay

(A)Determine how to minimize the cost of meeting the demand for the next three weeks.
(B)Revise the model in Question 106 so that the demands are of the form ,where is the original demand in month t,k is a factor,and is an amount of change in month t.Formulate the model in such away that you can use the SolverTable add-in to analyze changes in the amounts produced and the total cost when k varies from 0 to 10 in 1-unit increments,for any fixed values of the 's.For example,try this when = 2, = 5,and = 3.Describe the behavior you observe in the table.Can you find any "reasonable" 's that induce positive production levels in week 3?

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