ECONOMICS 3300 Assignment 3 - Cherokee School District scenario
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Updated on: 02/17/2015 10:41 PM Due on: 02/18/2015
Assignment 3
Question 1: pertains to the Cherokee School District scenario below.
(10 points)
The school board for the Cherokee School District has made the decision to purchase 1370
additional Macintosh computers for computer laboratories in all its schools. Based on the past
experience, the school board has directed that these computers should be purchased from some
combination of three companies McComp, EduElectronics and Macwin. In all three cases, the
companies charge a discounted variable cost per computer and a fixed delivery and installation
cost for these large sales to school districts. The table below shows these charges as well as the
capacity (the maximum number of computers that can be sold from the limited inventory) for
each of the companies.
Capacity
Fixed cost
Variable cost
McComp
710
$45,000
$750
EduElectronics
690
$35,000
$780
Macwin
1000
$50,000
$700
The school board wants to know the optimal plan for meeting its computer needs. 1.
Identify the type of integer programming framework (Total Integer, Mixed Integer or Binary)
that applies to this problem, develop the appropriate formulation (decision variables, objective
function and constraints) and solve it using Excel Solver.
Question 1: pertains to the Cherokee School District scenario below.
(10 points)
The school board for the Cherokee School District has made the decision to purchase 1370
additional Macintosh computers for computer laboratories in all its schools. Based on the past
experience, the school board has directed that these computers should be purchased from some
combination of three companies McComp, EduElectronics and Macwin. In all three cases, the
companies charge a discounted variable cost per computer and a fixed delivery and installation
cost for these large sales to school districts. The table below shows these charges as well as the
capacity (the maximum number of computers that can be sold from the limited inventory) for
each of the companies.
Capacity
Fixed cost
Variable cost
McComp
710
$45,000
$750
EduElectronics
690
$35,000
$780
Macwin
1000
$50,000
$700
The school board wants to know the optimal plan for meeting its computer needs. 1.
Identify the type of integer programming framework (Total Integer, Mixed Integer or Binary)
that applies to this problem, develop the appropriate formulation (decision variables, objective
function and constraints) and solve it using Excel Solver.
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Solution: ECONOMICS 3300 Assignment 3 - Cherokee School District scenario