The production manager for the Whoppy soft drink company is considering the production of two kinds of soft drinks: regular and diet. The company operates one 8-hour shift per day. Therefore, the production time is 480 minutes per day. During the production process, one of the main ingredients, syrup, is limited to maximum production capacity of 675 gallons per day. Production of a regular case requires 2 minutes and 5 gallons of syrup, while production of a diet case needs 4 minutes and 3 gallons of syrup. Profits for regular soft drink are $3.00 per case and profits for diet soft drink are $2.00 per case.
-For the production combination of 135 regular cases and 0 diet cases, which resource is completely used up (at capacity)?
A) only time
B) only syrup
C) time and syrup
D) neither time nor syrup

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To produce 135 regular cases, the syrup needed would be: 135 cases × 5 gallons/case = 675 gallons. This means that the maximum capacity for syrup production is used up, as the company can only produce 675 gallons of syrup per day. The time needed to produce 135 regular cases is 135 cases × 2 minutes/case = 270 minutes, which is less than the production time available (480 minutes). Therefore, time is not completely used up. Since there are 0 diet cases being produced, the resource limitation for syrup production is the only constraint for the given production combination.

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