Question

Employees use one of two methods to refinish each cabinet, method I takes 0.5 hrs. and the material cost 8$. method II takes 1.5hrs and $4, next week the plan to spend 73 hours and $368 in materials. how many cabinets should they plan to refinish with each method

Answer 1

method 1 - 46
method 2 - 49
the trick is that method 1 has a dominating constraint of material cost
where as with method 2 it is the time. Do i need to elaborate ?

Answer 2

no