What special case of linear programming should be used to model this situation?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The scenario gives the appearance that it is an assignment model waiting to happen up until the point that six sections of Introduction to Operations are needed and the professors are responsible for two to three sections each. The easiest way to model this is by declaring it a transportation model with the six sections of Introduction to Operations as traveling to the same destination. However, if each of those six sections is a node unto itself, and if each professor is separated into three possible sources of teaching, then this would fit the assignment model. The problem with solving the scenario with an assignment model is that the number of decision variables increases from 24 to 132 and the constraints increase from 10 to 23.
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