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

question 85

Essay

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.
The Pointy-haired boss knows a thing or two about optimization and decides to formulate the problem as a cost maximization problem.Use Solver to determine the answer he arrives at.

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Definitions:

Dermatophytes

A group of fungi that cause skin, hair, and nail infections by feeding on keratin in these tissues.

Coccidioides Immitis

A fungus that can cause coccidioidomycosis, also known as Valley fever, which is a disease that affects the lungs and can spread to other parts of the body.

Protist

A diverse group of eukaryotic microorganisms, which are neither plants, animals, nor fungi, and share some characteristics with those groups.

Eukaryotic

Referring to cells that contain a nucleus and other organelles enclosed within membranes, characteristic of all life forms except bacteria and archaea.