Question

The crafter Mary produce wristlets and earrings. The process requires hours of work divided in manually process or small tools.

Every earrings require 240 minutes of manual process and 2 hours using small tools.

Every Wristlets requires 180 minutes of manual process and 1 hour using small tools.

Mary dedicate 4 days ( In 8 hrs period) to produce the earrings and 100 hrs to produce the wristlets due to mary also study and work.

Every earring sold generates 7 euros of earning and for every wristlets generates 5 Euros.

The artisan Mary found that she did not calculate the cost of materials, and to know those cost, needs to determine an estimated budget with the following information:

For the earrings needs 5 clear finery, 4 dark finery and ½ wire.

For the wristlets needs 10 clear finery, 3 dark finery and no wire

The cost of the earrings are 200 cents per unit, and the cost of the wristlets are 300 cents per unit.

Exist the following constraints

5 earrings and 10 wristlets must be greater or equal than the minimum demand of 90 customers (Students).

4 earrings and 3 wristlets must be greater that the minimum demand of 48 customers (Teachers)

1 small earring (For the effect of the exercise will be the half a big earring) must be greater than the minimum demand that are three young ladies (For the purpose of the exercise 1 ½ older person)

1. With the above data (2) calculate Min Z (Cost in American dollar)

Answer 1