Every summer, the city of Rehoboth Beach hires temporary lifeguards to monitor the swimming areas within city limits. The lifeguards are assigned to work five consecutive days each week and then have two days off. The city’s insurer requires them to have at least this many lifeguards on duty each day of the week: Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 18 17 15 16 15 18 20 The parks commissioner needs to determine the minimum number of lifeguards that must be hired to satisfy these requirements. 2. Implement your model in a spreadsheet and solve it.

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Every summer, the city of Rehoboth Beach hires temporary lifeguards to monitor the swimming areas within city limits. The lifeguards are assigned to work five consecutive days each week and then have two days off. The city’s insurer requires them to have at least this many lifeguards on duty each day of the week:

Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat
18 17 15 16 15 18 20



The parks commissioner needs to determine the minimum number of lifeguards that must be hired to satisfy these requirements.

2. Implement your model in a spreadsheet and solve it.

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