Question: The Leather Company produces baseball gloves and leather straps using raw leather that is processed on a machine. For the coming week, there are 1000 square meters of leather and 40 hours of machine time available. As Production Manager, you want to determine a production plan for this week (how many units of each product to make) that maximizes net corporate profits.

a. Identify and define the decision variables. (3 points)

b. Identify and assign a symbolic name to each additional data value you would have to obtain to be able to formulate an LP model. (3 points)

c. Formulate an LP model using the variable names from (a) and the symbolic names for the data from (b). (4 points)