A company is taking bids on four construction jobs. Three contractors have placed bids on the jobs. Their bids (in thousands of dollars) are given in the file P05_52.xlsx. (A blank indicates that the contractor did not bid on the given job.) Contractor 2 can do only one job, but contractors 1 and 3 can each do up to two jobs. Determine the minimum cost assignment of contractors to jobs

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A company is taking bids on four construction jobs. Three contractors have placed bids on the jobs. Their bids (in thousands of dollars) are given in the file P05_52.xlsx. (A blank indicates that the contractor did not bid on the given job.) Contractor 2 can do only one job, but contractors 1 and 3 can each do up to two jobs. Determine the minimum cost assignment of contractors to jobs

(Note that the data from P05_52.xlsx is already in the excel sheet (B5:E7).

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11 Contractor 1
12 Contractor 2
13 Contractor 3
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5 Contractor 1
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Contractor 2
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Contractor 3
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9 Assignment of contractors to jobs
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16 Required
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18 Total cost ($1000s)
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Transcribed Image Text:Get Data (Power Query) 11 Contractor 1 12 Contractor 2 13 Contractor 3 14 Total 15 Data from Picture -xv fx 25 26 27 28 29 30 2 3 Bids on contracts (in $1000s) (large 4 5 Contractor 1 6 Contractor 2 7 Contractor 3 8 9 Assignment of contractors to jobs 10 16 Required 17 18 Total cost ($1000s) 19 20 21 22 23 24 4 Þ Point Remement Plannin it vlev P5-43 A V M9D P5-46 Refresh All v 54 47 1 =SUM(B11:B13) Queries & Connections Properties Edit Links STS_1 O B i=SUMPRODUCT(B5:E7,B11:E13) P5-52 Job 1 Job 1 JUN 27 + = 47 45 1 Review Kule Anderson SE/UCLA Stocks C Job 2 Job 2 View Solver Table for Mac Tell me 21 Y Sort Filter 1 48 46 52 Geography D Job 3 Job 3 52 46 55 =SUM(C11:C13) =SUM(D11:D13) =SUM(E11:E13) 1 ROUND2 E J Job 4 Job 4 F Clear Reapply Advanced Total =SUM(B11:E11) =SUM(B12:E12) =SUM(B13:E13) Max G <= 2 <= 1 <= 2 Set Objective: O Min To: By Changing Variable Cells: $B$11:$E$13 1 Text to S Columns SBS18 Solver Parameters Subject to the Constraints: SBS14:SES 14 = $B$16:SES16 $B$5:$E$7>= $B$11:SES13 $F$11:$F$13 <= SHS11:SHS13 H Max Value Of: Make Unconstrained Variables Non-Negative Select a Solving Method: Simplex LP ▼ 0 EES What-if Analysis 1 Add Change Delete Reset All Load/Save Options
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1 Bidding on contracts
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27
28
Contractor 1
6 Contractor 2
7 Contractor 3
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9 Assignment of contractors to jobs
10
Job 1
11 Contractor 1
12 Contractor 2
13 Contractor 3
14 Total
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16 Required
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18 Total cost ($1000
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Job 2
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Transcribed Image Text:A 1 Bidding on contracts 2 455 AWN 4 fx B 26 27 28 Contractor 1 6 Contractor 2 7 Contractor 3 8 9 Assignment of contractors to jobs 10 Job 1 11 Contractor 1 12 Contractor 2 13 Contractor 3 14 Total 15 16 Required 17 18 Total cost ($1000 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 47 оон 1 1 = 3 Bids on contracts (in $1000s) (large values mean contractor didn't bid for that job) Job 1 Job 2 Job 4 54 52 46 55 1 186 C 47 45 Job 2 1 РIPPOON 0 1 D Job 3 48 46 52 Job 3 1 0 HOOL 0 1 1 = Job 4 E OHO 1 1 0 1 = 0 Time Reference F Total 1 <= 1 <= 2 <= Math & Trig G H Max 2 1 2 More Functions 1 J Use in Formula Name Manager Create from Selec K L
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