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is the optimal solution? how many thousand round tables and how
many thousand square tables?...
This is the slack time of year at JES, Inc. The firm would actually like to shut down the plant, but if it laid off its core employees, they would probably go to work for a competitor. JES could keep its core (full-time, year-round) employees busy by making 10,000 round tables per month, or by making 20,000 square tables per month (or some ratio thereof). JES does, however, have a contract with a supplier to buy minimum of 5,000 square tabletops per month. Handling and storage costs per round table will be $10; these costs would be $8 per square table. Let Xi = thousands of round tables per month, X2 = thousands of square tables per month. Create a set of linear equations to describe the objective function and the constraints (enter your responses as whole numbers) Objective function: Minimize Z (in thousands) = 10 X, + 8 X 5. Constraints Square tabletop requirement 0 X, + 1X2 2 Total labor capacity: 2X, + 1X2 2 20 Nonnegativity: X, X220.