Based on Jacobs (1954). The Carter Caterer Company must have the following number of clean napkins available at the beginning of each of the next 4 days: day 1, 1500; day 2, 1200; day 3, 1800; day 4, 600. After being used, a napkin can be cleaned by one of two methods: fast service or slow service. Fast service costs 10 cents per napkin, and a napkin cleaned via fast service is available for use the day after it is last used. Slow service costs 6 cents per napkin, and these napkins can be reused 2 days after they are last used. New napkins can be purchased for a cost of 20 cents per napkin. Determine how to minimize the cost of meeting the demand for napkins during the next 4 days. (Note: There are at least two possible modeling approaches, one network and one nonnetwork. See if you can model it each way.)
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