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Description: Six patients are waiting in a hospital emergency room to receive care for various complaints, ranging from a sprained ankle to a gunshot wound. The patients are numbered in the sequence that they arrived and are given a priority weighting based on th

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Six patients are waiting in a hospital emergency room to receive care for various complaints, ranging from a sprained ankle to a gunshot wound. The patients are numbered in the sequence that they arrived and are given a priority weighting based on the severity of the problem. There is only one doctor available.
Consider the situation of the emergency room mentioned. Determine the sequence in which patients should be treated in order to minimize the weighted value of the mean flow time.

Patient
Time required
Priority
1
3
4
6.
20 min
2 hr
30 min
10 min
40 min
1 hr
1
10
3
2
2

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