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السؤال
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A hospital requires different numbers of full-time nurses on different days of the week. The minimum number of full-time
nurses required each day is given below. Each nurse works for 5 consecutive days, followed by 2 days off repeated each week.
Nurses are paid $200 per day on weekdays and $300 per day on weekends.
Day of the
week
Min. required
nurses
17
Monday
Tuesday
13
Wednesday
10
Thursday
12
Friday
14
Saturday
Sunday
25
20
a) Formulate a linear program (math problem) to minimize the total cost of meeting the nurse requirements for the hospital.
c) Solve the LP for how many nurses to hire for each day. What are the optimal number of nurses starting each day and what
is the total cost for the week?
4. Part 2 extra credit:
b) (5pts extra credit) Suppose the hospital can hire both full-time and part-time nurses. Part-time nurses can be hired on a
daily basis and there is no restriction on their schedule. Each part-time nurse is paid $250 per day. Modify the formulation
of the linear program in part A to include both full-time and part-time nurses.
d) (5pts extra credit) Solve the LP for how many nurses of each kind to hire for each day.
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