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Evan Schwartz has six jobs wailing to be processed through his machine. Processing time (in days) and due date information for each job are as follows:
Sequence the jobs by FCFS, SPT, SLACK, and DDATE. Calculate (he mean flow time and mean tardiness of the six jobs under each sequencing rule. Which rule would you recommend?
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