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Practical Management Science
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The coach of a swim team must assign the catcher to the 200-meter medley relay that will go to the Junior Olympics. Since many of your best swimmers are fast in more than one stroke, it is not easy to decide which one to assign. to each of the four styles. The top five swimmers and their fastest times (in seconds) in each stroke are as follows:

The coach wants to determine how to assign four swimmers to the four swimming styles for minimize the sum of the best corresponding times.

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type of Carl swim Back 37.7 Chest 43.4 Butterfly 33.3 Free 29.2 Chris 32.9 33.1 28.5 26.4 David 33.8 42.2 38.9 29.6 Tony 37.0 34.7 30.4 28.5 Ken 35.4 41.8 33.6 31.1
Transcribed Image Text:type of Carl swim Back 37.7 Chest 43.4 Butterfly 33.3 Free 29.2 Chris 32.9 33.1 28.5 26.4 David 33.8 42.2 38.9 29.6 Tony 37.0 34.7 30.4 28.5 Ken 35.4 41.8 33.6 31.1
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