Question: Problem 2 Carpet Plus sells and installs floor covering for commercial buildings. Brad Sweeney, a Carpet Plus account executive, was just awarded the contract for

Problem 2 Carpet Plus sells and installs floor covering for commercial buildings. Brad Sweeney, a Carpet Plus account executive, was just awarded the contract for five jobs. Brad must now assign a Carpet Plus installation crew to each of the five jobs. Because the commission Brad will earn depends on the profit Carpet Plus makes, Brad would like to determine an assignment that will minimize total installation costs. Currently, five installation crews are available for assignment. Each crew is identified by a color code, which aids in tracking of job progress on a large white board. The following table shows the costs (in hundreds of dollars) for each crew to complete each of the five jobs. Job 1 2 3 4 5 Red 30 44 38 47 31 White 25 32 45 44 25 Blue 23 40 37 39 29 Green 26 38 37 45 28 Crew Brown 26 34 44 43 28 Use the Hungarian method to obtain the optimal solution.

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