Andalus Furniture Company has two manufacturing plants, one at Aynor and another at Spartanburg. The cost in dollars of producing a kitchen chair at each of the two plants is given here.   The cost of producing Q1 chairs at Aynor is: 75Q1 + 5Q1^2 + 100 and the cost of producing Q2 kitchen chairs at Spartanburg is 25Q2 + 2.5Q2/2 + 150     Andalus needs to manufacture a total of 40 kitchen chairs to meet an order just received. How many chairs should be made at Aynor and how many should be made at Spartanburg in order to minimize total production cost?    Can you please use Excel to formulate and Solver to solve?

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  • Andalus Furniture Company has two manufacturing plants, one at Aynor and another at Spartanburg. The cost in dollars of producing a kitchen chair at each of the two plants is given here.
     
    The cost of producing Q1 chairs at Aynor is: 75Q1 + 5Q1^2 + 100
    and the cost of producing Q2 kitchen chairs at Spartanburg is 25Q2 + 2.5Q2/2 + 150
     
     
    Andalus needs to manufacture a total of 40 kitchen chairs to meet an order just received. How many chairs should be made at Aynor and how many should be made at Spartanburg in order to minimize total production cost? 
     
    Can you please use Excel to formulate and Solver to solve?
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