Due to supply shortages of carbon fiber that are needed to produce its sports cars, the management of a British car manufacturer has to make a decision which product to focus on under these special circumstances. The different cars consume different amounts of this material. In total, the company has only 7,250 kilograms in stock and new deliveries are not expected to arrive in the near future.

1. Please advise the head of operations as to which product they should focus on in order to maximize the profit of the company.

2. Can you think of any other factors that they should consider when making this decision?

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Car model Sales price Total variable cost Kilograms of carbon fiber required to manufacture 1 unit 500 G 550P C1 C1 GTR 170,000 186,200 632,000 990,000 133,500 145,310 512,900 849,300 32 54 142 174