ding benefits, and a temporary operator is paid $50 per day. The company watns to know the number of permanent and temporary operators to hire to minimize costs.  Formulate an interger Programming model. Using the solver function in excel the following solution is obtained:

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Northwoods Backpackers is a retail catalog store in Vermont that specializes in outdoor clothing and camping equiptment. Phone orders are taken each day by a large pool of computer operators, some of whom are permanent and some temporary. A permanent operator can process an average of 76 orders per day, whereas a temporary operator can process an average of 53 orders per day. The company averages at least 600 orders per day. The store has 10 computer workstations. 

A permenant operator processes about 1.5 orders with errors each day, whereas a temporary operator averages 4.5 orders with errors daily. The store wants to limit errors to 24 per day. A permanent operator is paid $80 per day, including benefits, and a temporary operator is paid $50 per day. The company watns to know the number of permanent and temporary operators to hire to minimize costs. 

Formulate an interger Programming model. Using the solver function in excel the following solution is obtained:

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