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Assigning Tasks. A data processing department wishes to assign five programmers to five programming

Question: Assigning Tasks.

A data processing department wishes to assign five programmers to five programming tasks (one programmer to each task). Management has estimated the number of days each programmer would take if assigned to the different jobs. These estimates are summarized in the following table.

TASK
Programmer 1 2 3 4 5
1 50 25 78 64 60
2 43 30 70 56 72
3 60 28 80 66 68
4 54 29 75 60 70
5 45 32 70 62 75

Requirement:

a. Determine the assignment that minimizes the total programmer-days required to complete all five jobs.

b. How will the solution change if programmer 3 cannot be assigned to tasks 2 or 4?

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