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The document describes a sporting equipment company that makes two types of baseball gloves - a regular model and a catcher's model. It provides the production time requirements and profit per glove for each model. The company wants to maximize total profit and can use 900, 300, and 100 hours of production time in its cutting and sewing, finishing, and packaging departments respectively. The optimal solution is to produce 500 regular models and 150 catcher's models for a total profit of $3,700. This will use 725, 300, and 100 hours of production time in each department.

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Individual Learning Activity 3

The document describes a sporting equipment company that makes two types of baseball gloves - a regular model and a catcher's model. It provides the production time requirements and profit per glove for each model. The company wants to maximize total profit and can use 900, 300, and 100 hours of production time in its cutting and sewing, finishing, and packaging departments respectively. The optimal solution is to produce 500 regular models and 150 catcher's models for a total profit of $3,700. This will use 725, 300, and 100 hours of production time in each department.

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Kelson Sporting Equipment, Inc.

makes two types of baseball gloves: a regular model and a


catcher’s model. The firm has 900 hours of production time available in its cutting and
sewing department, 300 hours available in its finishing department, and 100 hours
available in its packaging and shipping department. The production time requirements and
the profit contribution per glove are given in the following table:

Production Time (Hours)

Model Cutting & Finishing Packaging & Profit/Glove


Sewing Shipping

Regular model 1 1/2 1/8 $5

Catcher’s 3/2 1/3 1/4 $8


model

Assuming that the company is interested in maximizing the total profit contribution,
answer the following:

a. What is the linear programming model for this problem?

Let R be the number of units of the regular model

C = number of units of catcher’s model

Max 5R + 8C

subjective to 1R +3/2C <= 900 (Cutting and sewing)

1/2R + 1/3C <= 300 (Finishing)

1/8R+1/4C<=100 (Packing and shipping)

R,C>=0
b. Develop a spreadsheet model and find the optimal solution using Excel Solver. How
many of each model should Kelson manufacture?

Regular models = 500 units

Catcher's model = 150 units

c. What is the total profit contribution Kelson can earn with the optimal production
quantities?

5 x 500 + 8 x 150 = $3,700

d. How many hours of production time will be scheduled in each department?

Department Time used

Cutting & Sewing 725

Finishing 300

Packing and Shipping 100

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