Spherion Inc. produces their nozzles using one processor for seven tasks. Spherion would like to reduce the flow time. They are considering the flow time by either minimizing the average flow time by sequencing in shortest processing time or sequencing by assigning weights to each task based on their importance. A) Determine the shortest flow time of the two rules.

The following table shows the processing time, due date, and weight of each task (all in seconds):

Task	Ti	di	wi
1	8	18	0.15
2	18	19	0.10
3	19	21	0.25
4	25	40	0.07
5	21	40	0.30
6	11	35	0.10
7	14	16	0.03