| Product | Cutting | Sewing | Material |
| Skirt | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Dress | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Sport Coat | 6 | 6 | 4 |
The? Trim-Look Company makes several lines of? skirts, dresses,and sport coats.? Recently, a consultant suggested that the companyreevaluate its South Islander line and allocate its resources toproducts that would maximize contribution to profits and tooverhead. Each product requires the same polyester fabric and mustpass through the cutting and sewing departments. The following datawere collected for the study.
The cutting department has 100 hours of? capacity, sewing has150 hours of? capacity, and 60 yards of material are available.Each skirt contributes $8 to profits and? overhead; each? dress,?$16 and each sport? coat, $40
Let X1? = number of skirts? produced, X 2 = number of dresses?produced, X3 = number of sport coats produced.
a Specify the objective function and contraints for theproblem
b. A linear programming software shows the optimal solution?as:
X1 equals=0
X2 equals=4
X3 equals=14
How much would you be willing to pay for an extra hour ofcutting? time?
You would be willing to add an extra hour of cutting time if itscost were less than _____enter your response roundedto the nearest? cent Please show detail on how toset up in Solver
