salary for technicians is $$13$ per hour.

Min

s$.$t$.$

Employees $($pharmacists and technicians$)$ required

Service quality guideline

Pharmacists employed

$P,T0$

Check which variable$($s$)$ should be in your answer.

How many pharmacists and technicians are needed? What is the Optimal Objective Value?

$

$0O^{at(P,)}=(,O)$

$($b$)$ Given current staffing levels and expected attrition, how many new hires $($if any$)$ must be made to reach the level recommended in part $($a$)?$

Additional Pharmacists to hire P$1-85-10$

Additional Technicians to hire

What will be the impact on the payroll?

The payroll cost using the current levels of $85$ pharmacists and $175$ technicians is $ per hour. The payroll cost using the optimal solution in part $($a$)$ is $ per hour. Thus, the payroll cost will go by $