An electronics company has a contract to deliver


An electronics company has a contract to deliver 20,000 walkie-talkie within the next four weeks. The client is willing to pay $20 for each walkie-talkie delivered by the end of the first week, $18 for those delivered by the end of the second week, $16 by the end of the third week, and $14 by the end of the fourth week. Since each worker can assemble only 50 walkie-talkie per week, the company cannot meet the order with its present labor force of 40; hence it must hire and train temporary help. Any of the experience worker can be taken off the assembly line to instruct a class of three trainees; after one week of instruction, each of the trainees can either proceed to the assembly line or instruct additional new classes. At present the company has no other contracts; hence some workers may become idle once the delivery is completed. All of them, whether permanent or temporary, must be kept on the payroll till the end of the fourth week. The weekly wages of a worker, whether assembling, instructing, or being idle, are $200; the weekly wages of a trainee are $100. The production cost excluding the worker's wage are $5 per radio. The company's objective is to maximize the total net profit.
Formulate this problem as a linear programming problem.

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