Busines Analytic

1. The Composite Rotorblade Company (CRC) is gearing up for the new V-280 Helicopter contract. Currently CRC has 100 equally qualified workers. Over the next three months CRC has made the following commitments for blade production:

Month	Blade Production
May	20
June	24
July	30

Each employee can either work in the factory or can train new recruits. A new recruit can be trained to be an apprentice in one month. The next month, he, himself, becomes a qualified worker (after two months from the start of training). Each trainer can train two recruits. The production rate and salary per employee is estimated below.

Employee	Production Rate (Blades/Month)	Salary Per Month
Production	.6	$3,000
Trainer	.3	3,300
Apprentice	.4	2,600
Recruit	.05	2,200

At the end of July, CRC wishes to have no recruits or apprentices but have at least 140 full-time workers. Formulate and solve a linear program for CRC to accomplish this at minimum total cost.