Edexcel D2 — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleD2 (Decision Mathematics 2)
TopicPermutations & Arrangements
TypeOptimization assignment problems

2. A school entrance examination consists of three papers - Mathematics, English and Verbal Reasoning. Three teams of markers are to mark one style of paper each. The table below shows the average time, in minutes, taken by each team to mark one script for each style of paper.
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Team 1392
Team 2471
Team 3583
It is desired that the scripts are marked as quickly as possible.
Formulate this information as a linear programming problem.
  1. State your decision variables.
  2. Write down the objective function in terms of your decision variables.
  3. Write down the constraints, explaining what each one represents.