Question

Four professors are capable of teaching any one of four different courses. Class preparation time in hours for different topics varies from professor to professor and is given in the table below:

Professor A B C D
Linear Programming 2 15 13 4
Queuing Theory 10 4 14 15
Transportation Problem 9 14 16 13
Regression Analysis 7 8 11 9

Each professor is assigned only one course. Determine an assignment schedule so as to minimise the total course preparation time for all courses.

19 Jan 2026
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