Question
A departmental head has four subordinates, and four tasks to be performed. The subordinates differ in efficiency, and the tasks differ in their intrinsic difficulty. His estimate, of the time each subordinate would take to perform each task is given in the matrix below:
| Tasks | Subordinnate | |||
| E | F | G | H | |
| A | 18 | 26 | 17 | 11 |
| B | 13 | 28 | 14 | 26 |
| C | 38 | 19 | 18 | 15 |
| D | 19 | 26 | 24 | 10 |
How should the task be allocated, one to a subordinate, so as to minimize the total time?
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This is an optimization problem that can be solved using the Hungarian algorithm, which is commonly used for assigning tasks to workers (or matching items) in a way that minimizes the overall cost (in this case, time). The matrix you've provided represents the time each subordinate would take to complete each task. The task is to find the optimal assignment of subordinates to tasks so
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