Microbucks Computer Company makes two computers, the Pomegranate II and the Pome
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Question
Microbucks Computer Company makes two computers, the Pomegranate II and the Pomegranate Classic, at two different factories. The Pom II requires 2 processor chips, 16 memory chips, and 20 vacuum tubes, while the Pom Classic requires 1 processor chip, 4 memory chips, and 40 vacuum tubes. Microbucks has in stock at the beginning of the year 500 processor chips, 6,000 memory chips, and 9,000 vacuum tubes at the Pom II factory, and 200 processor chips, 2,000 memory chips, and 19,000 vacuum tubes at the Pom Classic factory. It manufactures 50 Pom IIs and 50 Pom Classics each month.
Microbucks Computer Company, besides having the stock mentioned above, gets shipments of parts every month in the amounts of 100 processor chips, 1,100 memory chips, and 3,300 vacuum tubes at the Pom II factory, and 50 processor chips, 1,100 memory chips, and 2,000 vacuum tubes at the Pom Classic factory.
(a) What will the company's inventory of parts be after 6 months?
Processor chips Memory chips Vacuum tubes
Pom II factory
Pom Classic factory
Explanation / Answer
pom ll factory-
total processor chips initially= 500, total imported= 100*6= 600, total used= 50*6*2=600
processor chip left in inventory= 500+600-600=500
total memory chip in inventory=6000+(1100*6)-(50*6*16)=7800
total vacuum tubes in inventory=9000+(3300*6)-(50*6*20)=22800
pom classic-
processor chip left in inventory= 200+(50*6)-(50*1*6)=200
total memory chip in inventory=2000+(1100*6)-(50*6*4)=7400
total vacuum tubes in inventory=19000+(2000*6)-(50*6*40)=19000