A company wants to hire 4 vendors for the sale of 4 products, they could only sell one type of product. The following table (image) indicates what each seller charges for selling each of the products. The company wants to assign each seller a product, find all possible optimal assignments by pinpointing their optimal cost. Indicate which is the optimal solution and the optimal value: a) Seller 1 is assigned product 2, seller 2 is assigned product 4, seller 3 is assigned product 3, and seller 4 is assigned product 1. For an optimal cost of 15 b) Seller 2 is assigned product 1, Seller 4 is assigned product 2, Seller 3 is assigned product 3, and Seller 1 is assigned product 4. For an optimal cost of 15 c) Seller 1 is assigned product 2, seller 2 is assigned product 4, seller 3 is assigned product 3, and seller 4 is assigned product 1. For an optimal cost of 14 d) None of the above
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A company wants to hire 4 vendors for the sale of 4 products, they could only sell one type of product. The following table (image) indicates what each seller charges for selling each of the products. The company wants to assign each seller a product, find all possible optimal assignments by pinpointing their optimal cost. Indicate which is the optimal solution and the optimal value:
a) Seller 1 is assigned product 2, seller 2 is assigned product 4, seller 3 is assigned product 3, and seller 4 is assigned product 1. For an optimal cost of 15
b) Seller 2 is assigned product 1, Seller 4 is assigned product 2, Seller 3 is assigned product 3, and Seller 1 is assigned product 4. For an optimal cost of 15
c) Seller 1 is assigned product 2, seller 2 is assigned product 4, seller 3 is assigned product 3, and seller 4 is assigned product 1. For an optimal cost of 14
d) None of the above
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