Question

ABC Computer Company makes quarterly decisions about their product mix. The company is considering only two of their products, notebook computers and desktop computers. ABC Computer Company would like to know how many of each product to produce in order to maximize profit for the quarter.There are a number of limits on what ABC Computer Company can produce.The major constraints are as follows:

1. Each computer (either notebook or desktop) requires a Processing Chip. Due to tightness in the market, our supplier has allocated 10,000 such chips to us.

2. Each computer requires memory. Memory comes in 16MB chip sets. A notebook computer has 16MB memory installed (so needs 1 chip set) while a desktop computer has 32MB (so requires 2 chip sets).

We received a great deal on chip sets, so have a stock of 15,000 chip sets to use over the next quarter.

3. Each computer requires assembly time. Due to tight tolerances, a notebook computer takes more time to assemble: 4 minutes versus 3 minutes for a desktop. There are 25,000 minutes of as

sembly time available in the next quarter. Given current market conditions, material cost, and our production system,each notebook computer produced generates $750 profit, and each desktop produces $1000 profit.

Use simplex method to solve the problem

solve it step by step do not use any other programes only calculations

Answer 1