GATE ME · 2019 · ME
Question 54: Operations Research
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Question 54
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Five jobs (J1, J2, J3, J4 and J5) need to be processed in a factory. Each job can be assigned to any of the five different machines (M1, M2, M3, M4 and M5). The time durations taken (in minutes) by the machines for each of the jobs, are given in the table. However, each job is assigned to a specific machine in such a way that the total processing time is minimum. The total processing time is ______ minutes.
| M1 | M2 | M3 | M4 | M5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
J1 | 40 | 30 | 50 | 50 | 58 |
J2 | 26 | 38 | 60 | 26 | 38 |
J3 | 40 | 34 | 28 | 24 | 30 |
J4 | 28 | 40 | 40 | 32 | 48 |
J5 | 28 | 32 | 38 | 22 | 44 |
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GATE ME 2019 · Paper 1
Mechanical Engineering · Original paper archive
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- Mechanical Engineering
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