Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 36

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions:
-(Table: Total Cost and Total Individual Benefit) Look at the table Total Cost and Total Individual Benefit. If an individual resident were to decide about hiring and paying for animal control officers on his or her own, how many officers would that resident hire?

• A) 0
• B) 1
• C) 3
• D) 5

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Definitions:

Degeneracy

In operations research, this refers to a situation where a linear programming problem has more than one optimal solution path, possibly leading to an indefinite number of solutions.

Transportation Problem

A type of optimization and allocation problem in which goods are to be delivered from several suppliers to several consumers at the lowest cost.

Filled Cells

In spreadsheet or database management, this refers to cells that have data entered in them, as opposed to being blank.

Sources

Refers to the origins or starting points from which something is obtained or derived.