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A company produces a certain product and has the capacity to produce 100 units per month...

A company produces a certain product and has the capacity to produce 100 units per month in regular time, and an additional 15 units per month in overtime. The production cost of the product varies by month due to changes in the material costs over time. The quantities of the product to be delivered over the next six months have already been set. The delivery requirements and production costs are given in the following table:

Month

1

2

3

4

5

6

Quantities to be delivered (units)

95

85

110

115

90

100

Production cost per unit in regular time (rand)

180

180

192

192

186

192

Production cost per unit in overtime (rand)

210

210

222

222

216

222

It is possible that the units produced in a month exceeds the delivery requirement. In such a case, the unsold units are then carried in stock to the following month. The cost of carrying an unsold unit in stock is R12 per unit per month.

At the beginning of month 1 there are no units in stock and the company does not want to have any unsold units at the end of month 6. The company must determine the number of units of the product to produce in regular time and in overtime each month to meet the delivery requirement at minimum cost.

(a) Define the decision variables that will be needed to formulate a linear programming (LP) model for this problem according to the following hints:

There must be variables to represent the number of units of the product produced in regular time each month.

There must be variables to represent the number of units of the product produced in overtime each month.

There must be variables to represent the number of unsold units in stock at the end of each month.

(b) Formulate the Linear Programming (LP) model that represents this problem.

(c) Solve the LP model using SOLVER.

(d) Interpret your SOLVER solution within the context of the original business problem

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