In the sheet Solver Set Up you are running a blood donation clinic. You have five cities
Question:
In the sheet "Solver Set Up" you are running a blood donation clinic. You have five cities that have provided you with a donated supply of blood. Your objective is to save the most number of lives. The number of lives saved is calculated by the needs of the patients in that city, and also some percentage of the blood may go bad if it is sent to another city (don't worry about changing this formula, pretend that this is given to you from a specialist who has defined this formula for you).
Use Solver to determine how to allocate blood between these five cities. As the economist, you are told how many units of blood were donated in each city, but you are tasked with choosing where to send these units. Note: Mathematically, you are constrained by the fact that you cannot allocate more blood than has been supplied. Also, be careful when you define your constraints, do not rule out the possability that all blood will be allocated to one city.
Problem 1: Use "Solver" to determine the optimal allocation of blood. Remember to consider seed values, as we discussed in class. Note: We did not cover the differences in the algorythm methods of solving these problems, we will stick with the default GRG Nonlinear method.
To grade this, I am going to open your file, open solver, and see what you used for inputs. I should be able to click "solve" and get and answer without an error. Your grade will be based on your seletion of the following
Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
ISBN: 978-1464107771
3rd edition
Authors: Susan A. Nolan