EBK PRINCIPLES OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
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Chapter 15, Problem 1.1VC
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Case summary:
The case deals about the conversion of concert to a basketball. The details about the center were given. The available crew size is given as 16. The following information is given in the case:
To draw: The Gantt chart to help Person C to organize his crew to perform the concert-to-basketball conversion.
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b) Need not satisfy all of the constraints, only some of them
c) Must be a corner point of the feasible region
d) Must optimize the value of the objective function
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