You are the project manager for a construction company. A project has exceeded its budget and is
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You are the project manager for a construction company. A project has exceeded its budget and is still incomplete. You estimate that the project requires additional persondays of effort or equivalent in order to be completed. You have been granted permission to use additional resources labour and machinery to help deliver the project. However, you must keep the cost to a minimum in doing this.
You may hire additional labour for per person, per day. You may hire additional machines for per machine, per day. Each machineday employed reduces the number of required persondays by You can only secure days worth of work from suitably trained workers, and there is only one suitable machine available on the market to hire, for up to four days.
Formulate the problem as a linear program including all constraint equations and the cost function and sketch it graphically, labelling the feasible region. marks
Solve the linear program by any method of your choice and estimate the optimal number of workers and machines to deliver the project at the lowest cost.
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