17.4. Sunshine House received a contract this year as a supplier of Scout USA cookies. Sunshine currently has five production lines, each of which will be dedicated to a particular kind of cookie. The produc- tion lines differ by sophistication of machines, site, and experience of personnel. Given the following estimates of processing times (in hours), assign cookies to lines to minimize the sum of completion times:

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Assign cookies to lines that minimizes the sum of completion times
17.4. Sunshine House received a contract this year as a supplier of
Scout USA cookies. Sunshine currently has five production lines, each
of which will be dedicated to a particular kind of cookie. The produc-
tion lines differ by sophistication of machines, site, and experience of
personnel. Given the following estimates of processing times (in hours),
assign cookies to lines to minimize the sum of completion times:
Production Line
Cookies
1
3
4
Chocolate Mint
30
18
26
17
15
Peanut Butter
23
22
32
25
30
Shortbread
17
31
24
22
29
Fudge Delight
28
19
13
18
23
Macaroons
23
14
16
20
27
Transcribed Image Text:17.4. Sunshine House received a contract this year as a supplier of Scout USA cookies. Sunshine currently has five production lines, each of which will be dedicated to a particular kind of cookie. The produc- tion lines differ by sophistication of machines, site, and experience of personnel. Given the following estimates of processing times (in hours), assign cookies to lines to minimize the sum of completion times: Production Line Cookies 1 3 4 Chocolate Mint 30 18 26 17 15 Peanut Butter 23 22 32 25 30 Shortbread 17 31 24 22 29 Fudge Delight 28 19 13 18 23 Macaroons 23 14 16 20 27
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