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The Attaran Corporation manufactures two electrical products: portable air conditioners and portable heaters. The assembly process for each is similar in that both require a certain amount of wiring and drilling. Each air conditioner takes 3 hours of wiring and 2 hours of drilling. Each heater must go through 2 hours of wiring and 1 hour of drilling. During the next production period, 240 hours of wiring time are available and up to 130 hours of drilling time may be used. Each air conditioner sold yields a profit of $20. Each heater assembled may be sold for a $19 profit. The aim of the objective function for Attaran Corporation should be to Maximize the objective value.
The optimum solution is:
Number of air conditioners to be produced = ___ (round your response to two decimal places).
Number of heaters to be produced =_____ (round your response to two decimal places).
Optimal solution value = _____ (round your response to two decimal places).
(a) Number of air conditioners to be producedb= 0
(b) Number of heaters to be produced = 120
(c) Optimal solution value = 2280