A large book publisher has five manuscripts that must be edited as soon as possible. Five editors are available for doing the work; however their working times on the various manuscripts will differ based on their backgrounds and interests. The publisher wants to use an assignment method to determine who does what manuscript. Each editor will edit only one manuscript. Estimates of editing times (in hours) for each manuscript by each editor are:

a. Formulate the problem as an assignment model, show all decision variables and constraints.

b. What is the total minimum editing time? What editors will be assigned to each manuscript?

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a A B C D E ROW MINIMUM MANUSCRIPT 1 12 8 10 16 14 P8 2 9 10 14 13 10 P9 3 17 14 9 18 ... View the full answer