Mustang atid, Me is a new movie from Nickledime Studios about a 12-year-old boy and a talking 1965 Ford Mustang convertible. The film is due out in 16 weeks. Originally, the studio was simply going to...

Mustang atid, Me is a new movie from Nickledime Studios about a 12-year-old boy and a talking 1965 Ford Mustang convertible. The film is due out in 16 weeks. Originally, the studio was simply going to promote this as a “feel good” movie. However, further research has shown that merchandising of the modified Mustang used in the movie could be quite lucrative if the products are available no later than the release date of the movie.

The following table details the activities of this project. Because of the studio’s long experience with product design and distribution, it has been able to determine normal and crash times and costs for each of the activities. Times are in weeks, and costs are in $ 100,000s.

a. Write the linear program that models this situation.

b. Determine a minimum cost schedule to complete the project within 16 weeks.