Question: ASU has decided to open a call center. They will need people to work 8h shifts and go 24h/day (3 shifts/day, 1 st , 2

ASU has decided to open a call center. They will need people to work 8h shifts and go 24h/day (3 shifts/day, 1st, 2nd, 3rd). A demand schedule was worked out as follows:

Shift Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
1st 7 8 9 5 7 2 5
2nd 5 3 2 4 3 2 2
3rd 9 10 10 7 11 2 2

The following conditions were adopted for workers:

Each worker works four consecutive days during any seven day period.

Each worker is assigned to worka shift (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and once a worker has been assigned to a shift they must remain on the same shift every day that they work.

The number of workers for every shift, every day is a constant. ASU does not want to pay for extra workers and being short-handed is also not acceptable.

  1. How many different kinds of 4 day shifts can there be? Write them out.
  2. Considering the demand schedule, what is the minimum number of workers needed to fill out the schedule?
  3. Is there a weakness in the LP result that you derived?

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