A plumbing repair company has 6 employees and must choose which of 6 jobs to assign each to (each employee is assigned to exactly one job and each job must have someone assigned).   How many decision variables will the linear programming model include? How many fixed requirement constraint will the linear programming model include?

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A plumbing repair company has 6 employees and must choose which of 6 jobs to assign each to (each employee is assigned to exactly one job and each job must have someone assigned).

 

  1. How many decision variables will the linear programming model include?
  2. How many fixed requirement constraint will the linear programming model include?
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