Six processes are to be laid out in six areas along a long corridor at Linda Babat Accounting Services. The distance between adjacent work centers is 40 feet. The number of trips between work centers is given in the following table.

(a) Assign the processes to the work areas in a way that minimizes the total flow, using a method that places processes with highest flow adjacent to each other.
(b) What assignment minimizes the total trafficflow?

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To From A 3 18 12 54 96 23 3 45 41 22 20 19 57 48 25 73