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You are starting a small business to sell toys. The demand for toys are unlimitand far exceeds your production capacity. The selling price for one toy is $10 and you areprice takers in the toy market (i.e. your production will not affect the market price). Theannual production depends solely on labor working hours:?@@<?A C('D<&$E'@ = 6 × GWhere N denotes the annual labor working hours. Moreover, in the labor market, thelabor’s working hours depend directly on hourly wage you pay:G = −2500 + 1000 × HWhere w denotes the hourly wage. In the first year of your business, you have a budget of$25000 as labor cost. Your goal is to maximize your annual profit = revenue – labor cost.a. (6 points)How do you formulate the annual revenue function from selling toys interms of hourly wage w ?b. (6 points)How do you formulate the total labor cost function in terms of w?c. (8 points)Write down a non-linear program for this optimization problem

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You are starting a small business to sell toys. The demand for toys are unlimitand far exceeds your production capacity. The selling price for one toy is 10 and you areprice takers in the toy market (i.e. your production will not affect the market price). Theannual production depends solely on labor working hours:?@@<?A C('D<&E'@ = 6 × GWhere N denotes the annual labor working hours. Moreover, in the labor market, thelabor’s working hours depend directly on hourly wage you pay:G = −2500 + 1000 × HWhere w denotes the hourly wage. In the first year of your business, you have a budget of$25000 as labor cost. Your goal is to maximize your annual profit = revenue – labor cost.a. (6 points)How do you formulate the annual revenue function from selling toys interms of hourly wage w ?b. (6 points)How do you formulate the total labor cost function in terms of w?c. (8 points)Write down a non-linear program for this optimization problem

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a. Formulating the annual revenue function from selling toys in terms of hourly wage w:

First, we need to find the annual production of toys, which is given by the equation N = 6 × G. But G is also a function of w, given by G = -2500 + 1000 × w.

So, we substitute G in the first equation with its value in terms of w to get N = 6 × (-2500 + 1000 × w) = -15000 + 6000 × w.

The revenue from selling one toy is $10, so the annual revenue R from selling toys is given by R = 10 × N = 10 × (-15000 + 6000 × w) = -150000 + 60000 × w.

b. Formulating the total labor cost function in terms of w:

The total labor cost is the product of the total working hours and the hourly wage. The total working hours is given by G = -2500 + 1000 × w.

So, the total labor cost C is given by C = w × G = w × (-2500 + 1000 × w) = -2500w + 1000w^2.

c. Writing down a non-linear program for this optimization problem:

The goal is to maximize the annual profit, which is the difference between the annual revenue and the total labor cost. So, we want to maximize P = R - C = (-150000 + 60000 × w) - (-2500w + 1000w^2).

This can be written as a non-linear program:

maximize P = -150000 + 60000w - 2500w + 1000w^2 subject to w >= 0 (the hourly wage cannot be negative)

This is a quadratic program, which is a type of non-linear program.

This problem has been solved

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