Table 5.1 A Company Makes Four Products That Have the Following Characteristics

question 100

Multiple Choice

Table 5.1
A company makes four products that have the following characteristics: Product A sells for $50 but needs $10 of materials and $15 of labor to produce; Product B sells for $75 but needs $30 of materials and $15 of labor to produce; Product C sells for $100 but needs $50 of materials and $30 of labor to produce; Product D sells for $150 but needs $75 of materials and $40 of labor to produce. The processing requirements for each product on each of the four machines are shown in the table.

Work centers W, X, Y, and Z are available for 40 hours per week and have no setup time when switching between products. Market demand for each product is 80 units per week. In the questions that follow, the traditional method refers to maximizing the contribution margin per unit for each product, and the bottleneck method refers to maximizing the contribution margin per minute at the bottleneck for each product.
-Use the information in Table 5.1. Using the traditional method, what is the optimal product mix (consider variable costs only-overhead is not included in this profit calculation) ?

• A) 71 A, 80B, 80C, 80 D
• B) 80A, 72B, 80C, 80D
• C) 80A, 80B, 60C, 80D
• D) 80A, 80B, 80C, 70D

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Definitions:

OPEC

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, an intergovernmental organization of 13 oil-producing nations that collaborate to manage the supply and set the price of oil.

Elastic

Describes a situation where the quantity demanded or supplied of a good or service significantly changes in response to a change in price.

Price Elasticity of Supply

A measure of how much the quantity supplied of a good responds to a change in the price of that good, with higher elasticity indicating greater responsiveness.

Quantity Supplied

The amount of a good or service that producers are willing and able to sell at a given price over a specified period of time.