Question: A steel-rolling mill has eight outstanding orders. Processing time in hours for the jobs are (13.4, 2.4, 1.8, 7.9, 12.3, 10.5, 2.4, 8.1), respectively. Each

A steel-rolling mill has eight outstanding orders. Processing time in hours for the jobs are (13.4, 2.4, 1.8, 7.9, 12.3, 10.5, 2.4, 8.1), respectively. Each day has 24 working hours. Jobs 1 and 2 are due by the end of today (24 hours from now). Jobs 3 through 5 are due tomorrow, and jobs 6 through 8 are due in 2 days. (tie-break is arbitrary) (i) Schedule the mill to minimize average completion time. Show me the schedule and the average completion time and maximum lateness of this schedule. (ii) Schedule the mill to minimize maximum lateness. Show me the schedule and the maximum lateness and average completion time of this schedule.

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