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Deluxe River Cruises operates a fleet of river vessels. The fleet has two types of vessels: A type A vessel has 60 deluxe cabins and 160 standard cabins, whereas a type B vessel has 80 deluxe cabins and 120 standard cabins. Under a charter agreement with the Odyssey Travel Agency, Deluxe River Cruise sis to provide Odyssey with a minimum of 360 deluxe and 680 standard cabins for their 15-day cruise in May. It costs $44000 to operate a type A vessel and $54000 to operate a type B vessel for that period. ii.) Find the range of values that the cost of operating a type A vessel can assume without changing the optimal solution. iii.) Find the range of values that the requirement for deluxe cabins can assume. iv.) Find the shadow price for the requirement for deluxe cabins.
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Answer:
a)
The number of cabins of each type of vessel should be used to keep the operating costs to a minimum.
The number of cabins of each type of vessel should be used to keep the operating costs to a minimum is $ 250,000$ 250,000 of 2 type A vessel and 3 type B vessel.
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