A fast food restaurant uses full-time and part-time help to meet fluctuating demand during the day. The following table presents projected need for workers at different times of the day:

Time

Workers needed

9:00-10:00

4

10:00-11:00

5

11:00-12:00

9

12:00-1:00

10

1:00-2:00

8

2:00-3:00

4

3:00-4:00

3

4:00-5:00

6

There is a maximum of four full-time workers and the other workers are part-time workers. Each full-time worker is there from 9:00 until 5:00, while the part-time workers will work for 4 consecutive hours at a cost of $4.00 per hour. The cost of the full-time worker is $50 per day. The company wishes to minimize total cost while meeting the demands. Formulate this as a linear programming problem. Carefully define all decision variables.

1. What are the variables?

2. How many constraints are there?

3. What is the objective function?

4. What is lowest cost?

5. What is the worker schedule?

David burdick is the ceo of acme bubblegum, a successful public company. as one of the cofounders of the company, burdick has enjoyed speaking and writing about the success of acme bubblegum for several years. typically, he speaks at conferences or directly to the press, but recently, he has been blogging about his firm anonymously. specifically, he defended a recent advertising campaign that was unpopular among consumers and pointedly attacked one of acme bubblegum’s competitors. burdick deeply enjoys his anonymous blogging and believes that none of his readers actually know that he works for acme bubblegum.should burdick be allowed to praise his company’s performance anonymously online? should he be allowed to attack his competitors without disclosing his relationship with the company? how would you feel if the ceo of a company at which you shopped was secretly writing criticisms of his or her competition? how would you feel if you knew a writer for your favorite blog was actually closely involved in a company that the blog discussed? 1. define the ethical issue? 2. who are the primary stakeholders? 3. what are the possible alternatives? 4. how could you evaluate the ethical implications of the alternative actions (use appropriate decision rules)? 5. what action would you recommend and why?