The Okra Colada An okra farm anticipates highly seasonal demand for their product, tender pods of okra that can be made into the new drink sensation, the okra colada. Their estimate of the demand profile appears below. This forecast is based on the demand profile of last year's drink, the tuna colada. Once everyone in the test market had actually sampled the drink, demand fell to zero.

Month	Demand Forecast
January	1,200
February	2,400
March	3,600
April	4,800
May	2,200
June	200

The costs for the managerial levers appear in this table.

Item	Cost
Materials cost/unit	$10
Inventory holding cost/unit/month	$2
Marginal cost of stockout/unit/month	$5
Hiring and training cost/worker	$300
Layoff cost/worker	$500
Labor hours required/unit	4
Regular time cost/hour	$4
Over time cost/hour	$6
Beginning inventory equals	1000
Ending inventory greater than	500
Marginal subcontracting cost/unit	$30

The base price per okra colada is $40 per unit and there is no promotion, but management is seriously considering different promotional plans. The beginning workforce level is 80 workers. Use the Okra Colada scenario to answer this question. What is the optimal profit when using linear programming to solve this sales and operations planning problem?

		$175,660
		$183,440
		$167,550
		$159,330