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Time Period Min. No. of Employees Required

The owner of a hamburger stand needs to determine the minimum number of employees to schedule each time period to operate 24 hours a day. Employees can start their 8-hour shifts at midnight, 4am, 8am, noon, 4pm, or 8pm. An LP model needs to be formulated to allocate employees across time periods while satisfying the shift requirements. AJ Furniture makes bookshelves and cabinets. They want to maximize profit by allocating limited assembly and finishing department hours to the products. An LP model is needed to determine the optimal product allocation given selling prices, costs, and time requirements for each product.

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Time Period Min. No. of Employees Required

The owner of a hamburger stand needs to determine the minimum number of employees to schedule each time period to operate 24 hours a day. Employees can start their 8-hour shifts at midnight, 4am, 8am, noon, 4pm, or 8pm. An LP model needs to be formulated to allocate employees across time periods while satisfying the shift requirements. AJ Furniture makes bookshelves and cabinets. They want to maximize profit by allocating limited assembly and finishing department hours to the products. An LP model is needed to determine the optimal product allocation given selling prices, costs, and time requirements for each product.

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The owner of a neighborhood hamburger stand has decided to operate 24 hours a


day on the basis of estimates of trade throughout this period, he feels that he requires
at least the following number of employees during during the given time periods:

Min. No. Of Employees


Time Period
required
0:01 - 4:00 3
4:01 - 8:00 5
8:01 - 12:00 13
12:01 - 16:00 8
16:01 - 20:00 19
20:01 - 24:00 10

His employees may report for work at midnight, 4am, 8am, noon, 4pm, or 8pm. Once
employees report in, they must stay continuously for an 8-hour shift. Fromulate the
LP Model.

2. AJ furnitures, make two products, book shelves selling for Php 5000 and cabinets
selling for Php 8000. The direct cost per unit is Php 3000 and Php 4000 respectively.
The company has no difficulty in selling all the product it can manufacture. The
assembly department has 60 hours available per week, the finishing department can
handle up to 48 hours of work per week. Manufacturing one book shelve requires 4
hours in assembly and 2 hours in finishing. Each cabinet requires 2 hours in assembly
and 4 hours in finishing. How can management allocate the limited man hour of the
two department in a way which will secure the largest possible net return and
maximize profit? Formulate the LP Model

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