The Omega pharmaceutical firm has five salespersons, whom the firm wants to assign to five salesregions. Given their various previous contacts, the salespersons are able to cover the regions indifferent amounts of time. The amount of time (days) required by each salesperson to cover eachcity is shown in the following table. Which salesperson should be assigned to each region to mini-mize total time? Identify the optimal assignments and compute total minimum time.RegionSalespersonABDE1710151620121614311161415124141010181713129.1511 The Bunker Manufacturing firm has five employees and six machines and wants to assign theemployees to the machines to minimize cost. A cost table showing the cost incurred by eachemployee on each machine follows. 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.MachineEmployeeABDF1$12$ 7$20$14$ 8$10210141320113536.9710411716105106.141012

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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. 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. Machine Employee A B D E F 1 $12 $ 7 $20 $14 $ 8 $10 10 14 13 20 9 11 3. 3 6. 9. 7 10 4 11 7 16 10 10 6. 14 10 12

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. 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. Machine Employee A B D E F 1 $12 $ 7 $20 $14 $ 8 $10 10 14 13 20 9 11 3. 3 6. 9. 7 10 4 11 7 16 10 10 6. 14 10 12

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