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users, druP2UEME/Documents/istatistik.pdf + Genilie uydur I Sayfa grnm A Sesli oku 1) Biggio's Department Store has six employees available to assign to four departments in the store-home furnishings, china, appliances, and jewelry. Most of the six employees have worked in each of the four departments on several occasions in the past and have demonstrated that they perform better in some departments than in others. The average daily sales for each of the six employees in each of the four departments are shown in the following table: Department Sales ($) Employee Toys Home Furnishings Appliances Jewelry 1 24 75 2 60 40 90 60 3 20 36 25 30 20 21 18 25 32 4 26 5 30 28 23 27 6 27 17 18 Employee 5 has not worked in the jewelry department before, so the manager does not want to assign this employee to jewelry department. a) Formulate a linear programming model to determine which employee to assign to each department. b) Transform this problem into assignment tableau, find the optimal solution manually, explicitly state the optimal solution and the total expected daily sales. users, druP2UEME/Documents/istatistik.pdf + Genilie uydur I Sayfa grnm A Sesli oku 1) Biggio's Department Store has six employees available to assign to four departments in the store-home furnishings, china, appliances, and jewelry. Most of the six employees have worked in each of the four departments on several occasions in the past and have demonstrated that they perform better in some departments than in others. The average daily sales for each of the six employees in each of the four departments are shown in the following table: Department Sales ($) Employee Toys Home Furnishings Appliances Jewelry 1 24 75 2 60 40 90 60 3 20 36 25 30 20 21 18 25 32 4 26 5 30 28 23 27 6 27 17 18 Employee 5 has not worked in the jewelry department before, so the manager does not want to assign this employee to jewelry department. a) Formulate a linear programming model to determine which employee to assign to each department. b) Transform this problem into assignment tableau, find the optimal solution manually, explicitly state the optimal solution and the total expected daily sales

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