A Fast Food Restaurant Uses Full-Time and Part-Time Help to Meet

question 72

Essay

A fast food restaurant uses full-time and part-time help to meet fluctuating demand during the day.The following table presents projected need for workers at different times of the day: There is a maximum of four full-time workers and the other workers are part-time workers.Each full-time worker is there from 9:00 until 5:00,while the part-time workers will work for 4 consecutive hours at a cost of $4.00 per hour.The cost of the full-time worker is $50 per day.The company wishes to minimize total cost while meeting the demands.Formulate this as a linear programming problem.Carefully define all decision variables.

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