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Red Brand CannersPart A Question 1 Why does Tucker state that the whole tomato production is limited to 800,000 pounds? (i.e., where does the number 800,000 come from?) Only 600,000 A are available. If all go into canned whole at most 200,000 B can be used because of the quality constraint BC ≤ (1/3)AC i.e., Question 2 What is wrong with Cooper’s suggestion to use the entire crop for whole tomatoes? 因為產量以及品質的限制，只能產生800,000磅的Whole Tomatoes，無法將所有的蕃茄用完，造成浪費。 購買蕃茄的成本，並非變動成本，應為固定成本，因此其利潤並非正確之計算方式，不能採用Cooper之提案。 Question 3 How does Myers reach the conclusion that the company should use 2,000,000 pounds of grade “B” tomatoes for paste and the rest of the grade “B” and all of grade “A” tomatoes to produce juice? What is wrong with Myers reasoning? Tomato Cost for 1 case of canned whole = where 5.18=cost/lb. of B (cents),4.5=lbs. B in 18-lb. case of canned whole, 9.32 = cost /lb. of A (cents), 13.5= lbs. A in 18-lb. case of canned whole. The Other cost are similarly computed. His conclusion is obtained as follows: By his calculations, profit/case is highest for paste. He can make paste all from B or all from A but can sell only 80,000 cases of it = 25(80 x 104) pounds = 2 x 106 pounds. Therefore he uses 2,000,000 pounds of B for paste. (iii) Next most profitable, by Myers’ computation, is juice. A million pounds (50,000 cases) can be sold. Thus he uses 600,000 A and 400,000 B for juice. The average quality is His reasoning is wrong because it is just another way of allocating to products costs already paid. Question 4 Without including the possibility of the additional purchases suggested by Gordon, formulate as an LP the problem of determining the optimal canning policy for this season’s crop. Define your decision variables in terms of pounds of tomatoes. Express the objective function coefficients in cents per pound. Formulation AC= lbs. A in Canned B