Question: 5 . Bank 2 4 is open 2 4 hours per day. Tellers work two consecutive 6 - hour shifts and are paid $ 1

5. Bank 24 is open 24 hours per day. Tellers work two consecutive 6-hour shifts and are paid $10 per hour. The possible shifts are as follows: midnight-6 AM,6 AM-noon, noon-6 PM,6 PM-midnight. During each shift, the following numbers of customers enter the bank: midnight-6 AM,100; 6 AM-noon, 200; noon-6 PM,300; 6 PM-midnight, 200. Each teller can serve up to 50 customers per shift. To model a cost for customer impatience, we assume that any customer who is present at the end of a shift costs the bank $5. We assume that by midnight of each day, all customers must be served, so each days midnight-6 AM shift begins with 0 customers in the bank. Formulate an optimization problem that can be used to minimize the sum of the banks labor and customer impatience costs. NOTE: The only reason the problem does not specifically ask for an LP is that the decision variables (number of workers and customers) need to be integers.

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