A State University’s Mathematics Department ollers three courses: Calculus
Linear Algebra, and Discrete Mathematics, and the chairperson is trying to
decide how many sections of each to offer this semester. The department is
allowed to offer 45 sections total, there are 5000 students who would like to
take a course, and there are 60 teaching assistants to teach them. Sections
of Calculus have 200 students each, sections of Discrete Mathematics have
100 students each, and sections of Linear Algebra have 50 students each.
Calculus sections are taught by a team of 2 teaching assistants, while Discrete
Mathematics and Linear Algebra need only 1 teaching assistant per section.
How many sections of each course should the chair schedule in order to offer
all the sections that they are allowed to, accommodate all of the students,
and give one teaching assignment to each teaching assistant?