a + sign before the blank.   Let B = number of copies done by Boston Components   Let A = number of copies done by Able Controls   Let L = number of copies done by Lyshenko Industries   Min ____B + ____A + ____L       s.t.                   ____B         ≤ _____ Boston       ______A     ≤ _____ Able           L ≤ _____ Lyshenko   ______B + _____A + ____L = _____ # useful reports   _____B + ______A     ≥ _____ Boston - Able %           ______L ≥ ______ Minimum Lyshenko B, A, L ≥ 0   Optimal Solution: B _____________   A _____________   L ______________   b.Suppose that the quality level for Boston Components is much better than estimated. What effect, if any, would this quality level have? ___________________________________________________________________ c. Suppose that management is willing to reconsider its requirement that at least 30,000 capacitors must be ordered from Lyshenko Industries. What effect, if any, would this consideration have?

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Gulf Coast Electronics is ready to award contracts to suppliers for providing reservoir capacitors for use in its electronic devices. For the past several years, Gulf Coast Electronics has relied on two suppliers for its reservoir capacitors: Able Controls and Lyshenko Industries. A new firm, Boston Components, inquired into the possibility of providing a portion of the reservoir capacitors needed by Gulf Coast. The quality of products provided by Lyshenko Industries has been extremely high; in fact, only 0.5% of the capacitors provided by Lyshenko had to be discarded because of quality problems. Able Controls has also had a high quality level historically, producing an average of only 1% unacceptable capacitors. Because Gulf Coast Electronics has had no experience with Boston Components, it estimated Boston’s defective rate to be 10%. Gulf Coast would like to determine how many reservoir capacitors should be ordered from each firm to obtain 75,000 acceptable-quality capacitors to use in its electronic devices. To ensure that Boston Components will receive some of the contract, management specified that the volume of reservoir capacitors awarded to Boston Components must be at least 10% of the volume given to Able Controls. In addition, the total volume assigned to Boston Components, Able Controls, and Lyshenko Industries should not exceed 30,000, 50,000, and 50,000 capacitors, respectively. Because of the long-term relationship with Lyshenko Industries, management also specified that at least 30,000 capacitors should be ordered from Lyshenko. The cost per capacitor is $2.45 for Boston Components, $2.50 for Able Controls, and $2.75 for Lyshenko Industries.

a. Formulate and solve a linear program for determining how many reservoir capacitors should be from each supplier to minimize the total cost of obtaining 75,000 acceptable-quality reservoir capacitors. If required, round your answers to one decimal place. For subtractive or negative numbers use a minus sign even if there is a + sign before the blank.

 

Let B = number of copies done by Boston Components

 

Let A = number of copies done by Able Controls

 

Let L = number of copies done by Lyshenko Industries

 

Min

____B

+

____A

+

____L

     

s.t.

               
 

____B

       

_____

Boston

     

______A

   

_____

Able

         

L

_____

Lyshenko

 

______B

+

_____A

+

____L

=

_____

# useful reports

 

_____B

+

______A

   

_____

Boston - Able %

         

______L

______

Minimum Lyshenko

B, A, L ≥ 0

 

Optimal Solution:

B _____________

 

A _____________

 

L ______________

 

b.Suppose that the quality level for Boston Components is much better than estimated. What effect, if any, would this quality level have?
___________________________________________________________________


c. Suppose that management is willing to reconsider its requirement that at least 30,000 capacitors must be ordered from Lyshenko Industries. What effect, if any, would this consideration have?
_________________________________________________________________________



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