The Leather Company produces baseball gloves as well as leather straps using raw leather that is processed on machine. For the coming week, there're 1500 square meters of leather and 50 hours of machine time available. As Production Manager, you want to find out a production plan for this week that maximizes net corporate profits.
a. Identify and define the decision variables.
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.
c. Formulate an LP model using the variable names from (a) and the symbolic names for the data from (b).