The production manager for the Coory soft drink company is considering the production of two kinds of soft drinks: regular and diet. Two of her limited resources are production time (8 hours = 480 minutes per day) and syrup (1 of the ingredients), limited to 675 gallons per day. To produce a regular case requires 2 minutes and 5 gallons of syrup, while 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 cases of regular and 0 cases of diet soft drink, which resources will not be completely used?
A) only time
B) only syrup
C) time and syrup
D) neither time nor syrup

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

To produce 135 cases of regular soft drink, it will take: 
2 minutes/case x 135 cases = 270 minutes
5 gallons/case x 135 cases = 675 gallons of syrup

Since the production time is only 270 minutes out of the 480 minutes available, the only resource that will not be completely used is time. Therefore, the correct answer is A) only time.

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