You work for the Brads Nailer Company which manufactures two types of nailers: a pneumatic...

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You work for the Brads Nailer Company which manufactures two types of nailers: a pneumatic model and a cordless model. You have contracted to supply a national retail chain with both pneumatic nailers and cordless nailers. However, Brads nailer production capability is limited in three departments: production, testing, and packaging.

Your answer will be the production hours needed to execute a production plan that minimizes costs - rounded to the nearest whole hour. (The number of nailers may not be a whole number, which is acceptable in this chapter.)

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Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Scenario 3
Pneum. Cost 52 55.50 38.50
Pneum. Prod Hrs 0.2 0.4 0.25
Pneum. Test Hrs 0.3 0.3 0.4
Pneum. Pkg Hrs 0.1 0.1 0.1
Pneum. Sales 22,000 24,500 18,000
Cordless Cost 67 69.75 44
Cordless Prod Hrs 0.3 0.3 0.4
Cordless Test Hrs 0.4 0.5 0.4
Cordless Pkg Hrs 0.1 0.1 0.2
Cordless Sales 15,500 15,500 14,000
Prod Hrs max 10,000 20,000 20,000
Testing Hrs max 15,000 18,000 18,000
Pkg Hrs max 4,800 4,200 5,000

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