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A marketing research professor is conducting a telephone surveyand needs to contact at least 160 wives, 140 husbands, 110 singleadult males, and 120 single adult females. It costs $2 to make adaytime call and $4 (because of higher labor costs) to make anevening call. The table shown below lists the expected results. Forexample, 10% of all daytime calls are answered by a single male,and 15% of all evening calls are answered by a single female.Because of a limited staff, at most half of all phone calls can beevening calls. Determine how to minimize the cost of completing thesurvey

PercentagesDaytimeEvening
Wife25%25%
Husband15%30%
Single male10%25%
Single female15%15%
None35%5%

Develop a Report for the following

1) State the decision variables and constraints in thisproblem.

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