Question

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Michelle

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You work at Ford Motor Company and are responsible for determining weekly production capacity for the Juarez, Mexico assembly plant. There are 21 days left in the production month. Your sales manager just informed you that 4725 vehicles need to be produced in the upcoming 21 days to meet projected sales demand in the United States. Your production capacity constraints are as follows: Each assembly line shift runs for eight hours, and you can run a maximum of three shifts per day. Each shift can produce 75 cars when operating at full capacity. . You can run your assembly operations seven days a week, if necessary. A fully staffed assembly line shift requires 100 production workers. Will you have any excess capacity (i.e., unused assembly line capacity) over the next 21 days? O a Yes O b. No Oc Yes, but only on third shift

Answer 1

ANSWER: b. No

Explanation:

Desired output = 4725 vehicles over 21 days

Available Capacity = 21 days * 3 shifts per day * 75 cars per shift

= 4725 cars

Available Capacity is just equal to Desired output

Therefore, there is no excess capacity