Mehta is planning his sales calls for the next day. He is judged and paid by his company both on the basis of the number of calls he makes and the amount of sales he generates.
Alembic Co. will take only one hour and will probably result in an order of 5 boxes. Bell Corp. will take three hours and will result in an order of 20 boxes or nothing. Champion Shops Inc. will take one hour and yield an order of 10 boxes. Des Raj Bros. will take from one to three hours and probably result in an order of 10 to 30 boxes.
Under the conditions mentioned above, what is the greatest number of boxes that Mehta can reasonably help to sell in a seven hour working day?
Under the given conditions, what is the minimum number of boxes that Mehta can reasonably expectto sell in eight working hours?
Mehta has sold 20 boxes to Des Raj Bros, and then his car breaks down and gets repaired only at 2 PM. What is the minimum sales figure for the day that he can reasonably hope to achieve by 5 PM?
If Mehta has an unbreakable thirty minutes lunch on appointment at 1 : 30 PM, then what is his best schedule for a 9 AM to 5 PM day?
If Mehta is sick and has to carry all his calls over to the next day, when he must visit another company Escorts from 10.30 AM to 1.30 PM, then what should be his best schedule for the day from 9 AM to 5 PM?
In the diagram given below, the circle represents Professors in a Medical College, the triangle stands for Surgical Specialists while the rectangle represents the Medical Specialists:
Surgical specialists who are also medical specialists but not professors are represented by