The Pointy-Haired Boss Has Five Projects to Assign and Decides

question 46

Multiple Choice

The Pointy-haired boss has five projects to assign and decides to go against all convention and assign them to individuals rather than project teams.He has the Elbonians estimate the labor cost in dollars of each possible assignment and that information is summarized in the table. How many decision variables are in an LP formulation of this problem?

• A)25
• B)10
• C)9

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