Question

Suppose that an additional 350 hours per week can be obtained from the milling machines by working overtime. The incremental cost would be $2.00 per hour. What would be the allowable increase(from the excel sensitivity report) in overtime when compared to additional hours that can be obtained

Answer 1

It is given that :

Additional time obtained per week from milling machines = 350

The incremental cost = $ 2 per hour

Therefore, the allowable increase for milling operation is 400.

This indicates that we can accommodate additional constraint RHS of
`200` hours.

Also we have to consider the impact on the profit of 2.25 which is an incremental cost of
`1.5` is well affordable.