=10-25 Major Bill Bligh, director of the Army War Colleges new 6-month attach training program, is concerned
Question:
=10-25 Major Bill Bligh, director of the Army War College’s new 6-month attaché training program, is concerned about how the 20 officers taking the course spend their precious time while in his charge.
Major Bligh recognizes that there are 168 hours per week and thinks that his students have been using them rather inefficiently. Bligh lets X
X 1 =
=
number of hours of sleep need per week number of pers 2 onal hours eating, personal hygiene, handling laundary an
(
d so on number of hours of class and studying number 4
)
X X
3 =
= of hours of social time off base
(dating,sports,family visits,and so on)
He thinks that students should study 30 hours a week to have time to absorb material. This is his most important goal. Bligh feels that students need at most 7 hours sleep per night on average and that this goal is number 2. He believes that goal number 3 is to provide at least 20 hours per week of social time.
(a) Formulate this as a goal programming problem.
(b) Solve the problem using computer software.
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