Objective Function

Question

An office manager needs to staff the office. She hires full-time employees at $18 per hour and part-time employees at $12 per hour. Write an objective function that represents the total cost (in $) to staff the office with x full-time employees and y part-time employees for 1 hr.

Answer 1

Objective function (to be minimized, one supposes): P(x,y) = 18x + 12y.

 

Socio-political note: try living on $12 per hour, without good affordabe medical benefits!