Answer to Question #203338 in Operations Research for Raghav sood

Question

A company has 5 jobs to be processed by 5 mechanics. The following table gives the return in rupees when the ith job is assigned to the jth mechanic. (i, j =1,2,.....,5). How should the jobs be assigned to the mechanics so as to maximize the overall return?

Jobs

1 2 3 4 5

1 22 28 30 18 30

Mechanics 2 30 34 18 11 26

3 31 17 23 20 27

4 12 28 31 26 26

5 19 23 30 25 29