Unbalanced Assignment/Multiple Optimal Problem
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The Bunker Manufacturing Firm has five employees and six machines and wants to assign the employees to the machines to minimize cost. A cost table showing the cost incurred by each employee on each machine follows:
Machine
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Emp A B C D E F
1 $10 $12 $ 7 $20 $14 $ 8
2 11 10 14 13 20 9
3 10 5 3 6 9 7
4 10 9 11 7 16 9
5 12 10 6 14 8 10
Because of union rules regarding departmental transfers, employee 3 cannot be assigned to machine E, and employee 4 cannot be assigned to machine B. Solve this problem, indicate the optimal assignment, and compute total minimum cost.
PLEASE SEE ATTACHMENT FOR PROBLEM AS TABLE DOES NOT COME OUT PROPERLY IN THE TEXT BOX...
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Unbalanced assignment and multiple optimal problem for Bunker Manufacturing Firm is analyzed.
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