Llano Corporation Has Four Products That Use the Same Constrained

question 57

Essay

Llano Corporation has four products that use the same constrained resource.Data concerning those products appear below: The company does not have enough of the constrained resource to satisfy for demand of all four products.
Required:
a.If salespersons are paid commissions that are a set percentage of sales,which product would they prefer to sell? In other words,if it is a choice between selling one unit of one product and one unit of another,which product would they prefer to sell?
b.From the standpoint of the entire company,if it is a choice between sales of one unit of one product versus another,which product should the salespersons emphasize?

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Definitions:

Bowed Outward

Refers to the shape of a production possibility frontier that indicates increasing opportunity costs for producing two goods.

Opportunity Cost

The cost of foregone alternatives; the value of the best alternative given up when a decision is made to choose one option over another.

Production Possibilities Frontier

A curve depicting all maximum output possibilities for two goods, given a set of inputs, representing the trade-off between different choices in the allocation of resources.

Opportunity Cost

Giving up possible gains from several options by choosing a particular one.