Angelina aniston is the director of the computer center for


Angelina Aniston is the Director of the Computer Center for the Pitt College. She now needs to schedule the staffing of the center. It is open from 8 am until midnight. Angelina has monitored the usage at the center at various times of the day and determined that the following numbers of computer consultants are required: Time of Day Minimum Number of Consultants Required to be on Duty 8 AM - Noon 6 Noon – 4 PM 8 4 PM – 8 PM 12 8 PM – Midnight 6 Two types of computer consultants can be hired: full-time and part-time. The full time consultants work for eight hours in any of the following shifts: morning (8 AM- 4 PM) afternoon (Noon – 8 PM) and evening (4 PM – Midnight). Full-time consultants are paid $14 per hour. Part-time consultants can be hired to work any of the four shifts listed in the table. Part-time consultants are paid $12 per hour. An additional requirement is that during every time period, there must be at least two full-time consultants on duty for every part-time consultant on duty. Angelina would like to determine how many full time and part-time consultants should work each shift to meet the above requirements at the minimum possible cost. a. Formulate an LP model for this problem. b. Implement your model in a spreadsheet and solve it. c. What is the optimal solution?

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