A furniture supplier, Acme Chairs, Inc., manufactures a Basic office chair and a Deluxe office chair....

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A furniture supplier, Acme Chairs, Inc., manufactures a Basicoffice chair and a Deluxe office chair. Each Basic chair costs$25.00 to manufacture, and each Deluxe office chair costs $40.00 tomanufacture. Acme Chairs wishes to determine the optimal productionquantities per day for each chair model in order to minimizeoverall total cost.

The production of each chair requires three types of materials:Wood, Primer, and Paint. The amount of material available per dayto manufacture the chairs is as follows:

30 units of wood.

600 oz. of primer.

750 oz. of paint.

Each chair requires the materials as shown below:

Wood (units)

1.25

2.50

Primer (oz.)

3.00

7.50

Paint (oz.)

6.00

10.00

A. State the Objective function mathematically.

B State the constraints mathematically.

C. Instead, create an Excel Model for this Example.(please givestep by step excel instructions)

Use Solver to determine the optimized solution. (Do not solvethe problem graphically)

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