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Formulate an optimization problem that can be used to find the optimal

3. Production Planning.

The profit function for two products is


where x1 represents units of production of product 1 and x2 represents units of production of product 2. Producing one unit of product 1 requires 4 labor-hours and producing one unit of product 2 requires 6 labor-hours. Currently, 24 labor-hours are available. The cost of labor-hours is already factored into the profit function, but it is possible to schedule overtime at a premium of $5 per hour.

a. Formulate an optimization problem that can be used to find the optimal production quantity of products 1 and 2 and the optimal number of overtime hours to schedule.

b. Solve the optimization model you formulated in part (a). How much should be produced and how many overtime hours should be scheduled?

Hint
Statistics"a. The optimization problem can be formulated as follows:Maximize P = 10x1 + 15x2 - 4overtime_hours - 5*premium_overtime_hoursSubject to:4x1 + 6x2 + overtime_hours + premium_overtime_hours <= 24x1, x2, overtime_hours, premium_overtime_hours >= 0Here, we are maximizing the profit function subject to the labor-hour constraint. The decision variables are x1 and x2, which represent th...

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