The company with manufacturing plants situated in Massachusetts and Virginia has labor-hour and wage requirements for manufacture of 3 inflatable boats as given in following two tables:
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Labor Hours per Boat
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Cutting Dept.
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Assembly Dept.
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Packaging Dept.
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One Person boat
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0.6 hr
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0.6 hr
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0.2 hr
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Two person boat
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1.0 hr
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0.9 hr
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0.3 hr
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Three person boat
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1.5 hr
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1.2 hr
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0.4 hr
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Consider matrix L represent labor hours per boat and matrix W signify hourly wages.
a. Find which product is undefined, L*W or W*L?
b. Determine product of one which is defined.
c. Use the results from part b to determine labor costs of the one person boat manufactured in Massachusetts.
d. Write rows and columns of matrix in part b.