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Stone Age Surfboards is a small manufacturer of two types of popular low-tide surfboards, the Graystone and the Lava models. The manufacturing process consists of two departments: fabrication and finishing. The fabrication department has 8 skilled workers, each of whom works 9.25 hours per day. The finishing department has 5 workers, each of whom works a 6-hour shift. Each pair of Graystone surfboards requires 2.5 labor-hours in the fabrication department and 2 labor-hours in finishing. The Lava model requires 4.2 labor-hours in the fabrication department and 3.6 labor-hours in finishing. The company operates 6 days a week. It makes a per-unit profit of $40 on the Graystone model and $60 on the Lava model. The company anticipates selling at least twice as many Lava models as Graystone models.

1. What is the total profit generated?

2. What is the value of slack obtained from the answer report?

3. What is the Allowable Increase in the finishing hours used?

4. If the unit profit on Graystone surfboards is increased by $10, what is the Allowable Decrease for Lava surfboards?

	A	B	C	D
1	Stone Age Surfboards
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3	Data
4		Product
5	Department	Graystone	Lava	Limitation (hours)
6	Fabrication	2.5	4.2	74
7	Finishing	2	3.6	30
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9	Profit/Unit	$40	$60
10
11
12	Model
13		Graystone	Lava
14	Quantity Produced			Hours Used
15	Fabrication
16	Finishing
17
18				Excess Lava
19	Market Mixture
20
21				Total Profit
22	Profit Contribution

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