Question: Zaboca Printing Limited (ZPL) has only one working printer. Eight (8) customers submitted their orders today Monday 6th June 2022. The schedule of delivery of

Zaboca Printing Limited (ZPL) has only one
Zaboca Printing Limited (ZPL) has only one working printer. Eight (8) customers submitted their orders today Monday 6th June 2022. The schedule of delivery of these orders are as follows: Jobs Processing Date Due (in order of Time (Days) arrival) 4 10 7 2 Monday 13 June 2022 Monday 20 June 2022 Friday 17th June 2022 Friday 10th June 2022 Wednesday 15 June 2022 Tuesday 14th June 2022 Thursday 16th June 2022 Saturday 18th June 2022 5 3 8 9 All jobs require the use of the only printer available; You must decide on the processing sequence for the eight (8) orders. The evaluation criterion is minimum flow time. i. FCFS [3] ii. SOT iii. EDD [3] iv. CR [3] v. From the list (i to iv above) recommend the best rule to sequence the jobs. [3] TOTAL 15 MARKS |

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