Botswana Electronics Company (BEC), is contemplating a research and development program encompassing eight major projects. The company is constrained from embarking on all of the projects by the number of available scientists (40) and the budget available for the projects ($300,000). What are the resource requirements and the estimated profit for each project?

Note that we are told that Botswana Electronics Company (BEC) is constrained because of the number of available scientists (40) and the budget available for the projects ($300,000). Since this is an Electronics production company much of the needed resources includes metals, cables, power, as well as specialised workforce.

Using conservative estimates for the eight project, the profit for each project should be $37,500 b ($300,000/8)