Cal Ripken is a distinguished American baseball player who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Baltimore Orioles (1981-2001).Among his many achievements, the most important one is that he holds the record for playing in 2,632 consecutive games over more than 16 years. Suppose that, independently of other games, the probability is 0.005 (5 in 1000) that a baseball player cannot play a game due to illness, injury, family emergency, or other emergencies. What is the probability that a baseball player breaks Cal Ripken’s record?

Acaterer knows he will need 60, 50, 80, 40 and 50 dinner napkins on five successive evenings. he can purchase new napkins initially at 25 cents each, after which he can have dirty napkins laundered by a fast one-day laundry service (i.e., dirty napkins given at the end of the day will be ready for use the following day) at 15 cents each, or by a slow two-day service at 8 cents each or both. the caterer wants to know how many napkins he should purchase initially and how many dirty napkins should be laundered by fast and slow service on each of the days in order to minimize his total costs. formulate the caterer’s problem as a linear program as follows (you must state any assumptions you make): a. define all variables clearly. how many are there? b. write out the constraints that must be satisfied, briefly explaining each. (do not simplify.) write out the objective function to be minimized. (do not simplify.)