An electronics firm produces electronic equipment, which it supplies to various electrical manufacturers. Quality control records indicate that different employees produce different numbers of defective items. The average number of defects produced by each employee for each of five components is given in Table 1 below: Table 1. Average Number of Defects per Employee Component D Employee A B 1 25 25 28 14 11 27 17 15 29 14 24 26 30 14 28 4 18 17 16 18 28 22 18 16 16 27 19 23 21 19 29 Formulate the problem as an LP that will minimize the total average number of defects produced by the firm each month. Define the variables, objective function and constraints. 23