Optimal Production. Canine Products, Inc., produces and markets a new moist and chewy nugget dog food called "Chow Hound" being test marketed in the San Diego market. This product is similar to several others offered by Canine Products, and can be produced with currently available equipment and personnel using any of three alternative product methods. Method A requires 6 hours of labor and 1 processing facility hour to produce 100 bags of dog food, Q_A. Method B requires 3 labor and 3 processing facility hours per Q_B. Method C requires 2 labor hours and 4 processing facility hours per unit of Q_C. Because of slack demand for other products CP currently has 15 labor hours and 5 processing facility hours available per week for producing Chow Hound.
A. Using the equality form of the constraint conditions, set up and interpret the linear program Canine Products would use to maximize production of Chow Hound given currently available resources.
B. Calculate and interpret all solution values.

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The Answer of Optimal Production. Canine Products, Inc., produces and markets a new moist and chewy nugget dog food called "Chow Hound" being test marketed in the San Diego market. This product is similar to several others offered by Canine Products, and can be produced with currently available equipment and personnel using any of three alternative product methods. Method A requires 6 hours of labor and 1 processing facility hour to produce 100 bags of dog food, Q_A. Method B requires 3 labor and 3 processing facility hours per Q_B. Method C requires 2 labor hours and 4 processing facility hours per unit of Q_C. Because of slack demand for other products CP currently has 15 labor hours and 5 processing facility hours available per week for producing Chow Hound. A. Using the equality form of the constraint conditions, set up and interpret the linear program Canine Products would use to maximize production of Chow Hound given currently available resources. B. Calculate and interpret all solution values.