AQA Further Paper 3 Discrete Specimen — Question 7 4 marks

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleFurther Paper 3 Discrete (Further Paper 3 Discrete)
SessionSpecimen
Marks4
TopicLinear Programming

7 A company repairs and sells computer hardware, including monitors, hard drives and keyboards. Each monitor takes 3 hours to repair and the cost of components is \(\pounds 40\). Each hard drive takes 2 hours to repair and the cost of components is \(\pounds 20\). Each keyboard takes 1 hour to repair and the cost of components is \(\pounds 5\). Each month, the business has 360 hours available for repairs and \(\pounds 2500\) available to buy components. Each month, the company sells all of its repaired hardware to a local computer shop. Each monitor, hard drive and keyboard sold gives the company a profit of \(\pounds 80 , \pounds 35\) and \(\pounds 15\) respectively. The company repairs and sells \(x\) monitors, \(y\) hard drives and \(z\) keyboards each month. The company wishes to maximise its total profit. 7
  1. Find five inequalities involving \(x , y\) and \(z\) for the company's problem.
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    1. Find how many of each type of computer hardware the company should repair and sell each month.
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  2. (ii) Explain how you know that you had reached the optimal solution in part (b) (i).
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  3. (iii) The local computer shop complains that they are not receiving one of the types of computer hardware that the company repairs and sells. Using your answer to part (b) (i), suggest a way in which the company's problem can be modified to address the complaint.
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