Lane Accessories Has a Growing Demand for Custom Apple Watch

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Lane Accessories has a growing demand for custom Apple watch designer bands. The current manufacturing costs are $140 per hour to operate, for each hour of operation, 205 black band designs and 180 multi-color designs are completed. However, Lane found a new larger manufacturing space that will cost $160 per hour and produce 325 black design bands and 289 multi-color bands per hour completed. Lane has newly placed orders to restock other retail outlets nationwide for 7,000 black band designs and 5,000 multi-color bands. Because Lane is out of inventory, she needs to decide how many hours to operate each facility to fulfill orders while minimizing cost. Formulate the minimization function for production costs.

A) Production Costs = 140x1 + 160x2
B) Production Costs = (140x1 + 385) + (160x2 + 614)
C) Production Costs = 385x1 + 614x2
D) Production Costs = (140x1 + 7,000) + (160x2 + 5,000)