Refer to Example 10. The company wants to know how many hours to schedule in each department in order to produce 2,000 trick skis and 1,000 slalom skis. These production requirements can be represented by either of the following matrices:

Using the labor-hour matrix L from Example 10, find PL or LQ, whichever has a meaningful interpretation for this problem, and label the rows and columns accordingly.

Data from Example 10

We can combine the time requirements for slalom and trick water skis into one matrix:

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Trick Slalom skis skis P = [2,000 1,000] Q 2,000 1,000 Trick skis Slalom skis