The Chief of Police, Karen Stanley, of the Make Believe Police Department needs to assign five detective squads to five pending criminal cases. Karen wants to come up with an optimum assignment that will minimize the total time it takes to conclude the cases. Data on past performance of each detective squad to complete each case assigned in terms of average number of days is presented in the following table:

1. Use the assignment method to solve the problem.

2. If squad D cannot be assigned to case-5 as a result of a conflict of interest, solve the problem given this new constraint.

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Average Completion Time (in days) Detective Squad A Case-3 Case-1 Case-2 Case-5 Case-4 15 4 28 21 13 32 5 11 4 6. 20 20 9. 12 8. 13 25 27 14 24 A.