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Q/A manufacturer of outdoor clothing makes wax jackets and trousers. Each jacket requires 1 hour to make,...

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Q/Amanufacturer of outdoor clothing makes wax jackets and trousers.Each jacket requires 1 hour to make, whereas each pair of trouserstakes 40 minutes. The materials for a jacket cost $32 and those fora pair of trousers cost $40. The company can devote only 34 hoursper week to the production of jackets and trousers, and the firm’stotal weekly cost for materials must not exceed $1200. The companysells the jackets at a profit of $12 each and the trousers at aprofit of $14 per pair. Market research indicates that the firm cansell all of the jackets that are produced, but that it can sell at most half asmany pairs of trousers as jackets

.a-Due to the changes in demand, the company has to change itsprofit margin on a pair of trousers. Assuming that the profitmargin on a jacket remains at $12 and the manufacturing constraintsare unchanged, find the minimum and maximum profit margins on apair of trousers which the company can allow before it shouldchange its strategy for optimum output.

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