The Furniture Company builds two types of computer desks from coated wooden board. The Superior model needs 50 square f

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The Furniture Company builds two types of computer desks
from coated wooden board. The Superior model needs 50 square feet
of wooden board, 2 keyboard trays, and 8 hours of labor to
assemble. Its selling price is $159. The Shiny model needs 35
square feet of wooden board, 1 keyboard tray, and 5 hours of labor
to assemble. Its selling price is $135. In the next week, the
company can buy up to 25,000 ft2 of wooden board at $2.45 per ft2
and up to 800 keyboard trays at a cost of $5.35 each. The company
considers manufacturing labor as a fixed cost and has 4000 labor
hours available in the next week for the assembly of these
desks
a. Formulate an optimization model for this problem
algebraically.









b. Formulate and solve an optimization model for this
problem on a spreadsheet