Finance or Operation Management Only

1. You are asked to assign four patients to five nurses using the following travel distances. We want to minimize total mileage. (10)

	Patient
Nurse	Warren	Xavier	Yolanda	Zanthia
Amy	20	25	15	12
Brenda	15	18	27	20
Connor	32	22	17	23
Danielle	41	16	12	28
Emily	24	29	19	16

a. The optimal solution is:

b. The objective function value = _________.

c. If we formulated this as a linear program, how many decision variables would we have?

d. If we added a fifth patient, would she be assigned to Emily? Explain

e. This is an integer program. (True / False)