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    Linear Programming Help

    I have ten projects to be completed. 5 of them are short term which take 6 months to complete and the other 5 are long term projects which take 12 months to complete. I have three resources available with me. One resource is enough to complete one project. However, one resource can only be engaged with one project at a time. As soon as a project is completed the resource can be engaged in the next project. Write a linear program in excel to optimize resource allocation and start stop times of the ten projects to ensure that all the ten projects get completed within the least amount of time.

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    Re: Linear Programming Help

    Welcome to the Forum jaykekdi !

    Do not dump a homework question here and ask us to just do it for you.

    Do some work on this based on what you are learning in the class, set up the problem in an Excel file, and then come back if you have a specific question about a sticking point.
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    Re: Linear Programming Help

    I was under the impression that we needed to be to the point on this forum. FYI I'm not in class and this is not "homework". Please do not bring your personal frustrations here. This is supposed to be a safe space for beginners.

    I hope you find peace and treat others with a little more grace. Have a nice day

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    Re: Linear Programming Help

    This has nothing to do with what you imagine my personal frustrations to be. The wording of your question sounds like an exercise, as it uses nice round numbers and is an imperative statement. "Write a linear program in excel" is not normally how our members ask a question.

    Your question lays out a scenario and asks us to develop and entire solution for you from scratch. As you can see from a lack of responses for 24 hours, few people are willing to do that.

    Even if this is not homework, you will draw more interest to your question and get better responses if you show that you have attempted to solve this, show what work you have done, and provide an Excel file with desired results.

    Hopefully you will take this guidance in the spirit it is offered to get the best chance for help. I would be very happy to help you myself by translating an algorithm to Excel.

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    Re: Linear Programming Help

    Thank you. I've uploaded the excel file with the program I've written so far. I've used binary variables to denote whether a particular resource has been allotted to the project or not.
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    Re: Linear Programming Help

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