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The maximum number of labor hours available per day at Shirts Happen are 25 hours for cutting, 35 hours for sewing, and 5 hours for packaging. The cutting time for men's shirts are 30 minutes, swing time 80 minutes, packaging is 12 minutes and for women's shirts cutting time is 60 minutes, sewing is 60 minutes and packaging is 4 minutes. What is the maximum items can be produced

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Final answer:

For men's shirts, the bottleneck process is sewing, limiting production to 26 shirts.

For women's shirts, the bottleneck is cutting, with a limit of 25 shirts.

Thus, the maximum production capacity is 51 shirts per day.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine the maximum number of items Shirts Happen can produce, we must first calculate the maximum number of men's and women's shirts that can be handled by each process (cutting, sewing, and packaging) per day, given the labor hours available.

Calculations for Men's Shirts:

  • Cutting: 25 hours/day * (60 minutes/hour) / 30 minutes = 50 shirts
  • Sewing: 35 hours/day * (60 minutes/hour) / 80 minutes = 26.25 shirts (since we can't have a fraction of a shirt, this rounds down to 26 shirts)
  • Packaging: 5 hours/day * (60 minutes/hour) / 12 minutes = 25 shirts

Calculations for Women's Shirts:

  • Cutting: 25 hours/day * (60 minutes/hour) / 60 minutes = 25 shirts
  • Sewing: 35 hours/day * (60 minutes/hour) / 60 minutes = 35 shirts
  • Packaging: 5 hours/day * (60 minutes/hour) / 4 minutes = 75 shirts

In this case, the bottleneck for the men's shirts is the sewing step with a maximum of 26 shirts, and for the women's shirts, it is the cutting step with a maximum of 25 shirts.

Therefore, the maximum number of items that can be produced is 26 men's shirts plus 25 women's shirts, giving a total of 51 shirts per day.