Illustrate what is the optimal solution to this problem

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"A Nursing Home facility requires different numbers of full-time employees on different days on the week. The number of full-time employees required each day is given in the following tables. Union rules are that each full time employee must work 5 consecutives days and then receive 2 days off. The facility wants to meet its daily requirements using only full-time employees. Employees are paid $10 per hour on weekdays and $15 per hour on weekends. One would like to minimize the weekly payroll (one can assume that each employee works 8 hours per day). What is the optimal solution to this problem?

Minimum number of employees required
Monday 17
Tuesday 13
Wednesday 15
Thursday 19
Friday 14
Saturday 16
Sunday 11

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