2.13. A local furniture company provides custom-made furniture. Since each job is different, demand is forecast in hours per week. Over the next five weeks, the company expects that the demand will be 200 hours per week. There is an existing backlog of 100 hours, and at the end of five weeks, the company wants to reduce that to 80 hours. How many hours of work will be needed each week to reduce the backlog? What will be the backlog at the end of each week?

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Total Forecast Demand 200 200 200 200 200 Planned Production Projected Backlog 100