A plumber can buy plastic pipe in 6-foot and 12-foot lengths. The current job requireseight 4-foot lengths, five 5-foot lengths and three 7-foot lengths. The plumber wantsto figure out how many of each of the two stock lengths should be bought to minimizewaste.(a) Set up a linear programming model to the above situation.(b) Solve the model.(c) Perform a sensitivity analysis on the model.(d) Comment on the solution, noting the meanings of the slack variables and theranges for resource and cost components.

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Practical Management Science

6th Edition

ISBN:9781337406659

Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Publisher:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Chapter9: Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Section9.5: Multistage Decision Problems

Problem 17P

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