ValuCom Electronics manufactures five different models of te

Valu-Com Electronics manufactures five different models of telecommunications interface cards for personal and laptop computers. As summarized in the following table, each of these devices requires differing amounts of printed circuit (PC) board area, resistors, memory chips, assembly time, selling price, and manufacturing cost

3. LP Interpretation. [26 points] Valu-Com Electronics manufactures five different models of telecommunications interface cards for personal and laptop computers. As summarized in the following table, each of these devices requires differing amounts of printed circuit (PC) board area, resistors, memory chips, assembly time, selling price, and manufacturing cost. Required, per unit PC Board, in Resistors Memory chi Assembly time (hours) Financial information, per unitHyperlink Wholesale Price, $ Manufacturing cost, $ Hyperlink FastLink SpeedLink MicroLink EtherLink 20 28 24 0.6 FastLink S150 S100 4 0.5 SpeedLink $130 S90 12 4 0.65 MicroLink S169 $130 0.75 S190 S130 EtherLink S139 $101 In their next production period, Valu-Com has 80,000 square inches of PC board, 100,000 resistors, 30,000 memory chips, and 5,000 hours of assembly time available They can sell all the product they can manufacture, but the marketing department wants to be sure they produce at least 500 units of each product (except for MicroLink and EtherLink, their old product group) and at least twice as many FastLink cards as HyperLink cards . To maximize profit (price cost), Valu-Com has formulated a linear programming model to optimize its production plan for November, using the following variables HYPER, FAST, SPEED, MICRO, ETHER = the number of HyperLink, Fastlink, SpeedLink MicroLink, and EtherLink cards, respectively, to manufacture in November (Note that fractional values are permitted since any partial cards will complete manufacturing in December.) The LP model has been solved with BLP, with the result shown on the next page Answer the questions that follow using information from these BLP reports.

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