Formulate a mathematical model to obtain the minimum time.

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A contractor owns three excavators of different capacity. He/she wants to dispatch these excavators into three different jobs. The performance of the excavators is measured as the time consumed to perform each job. The data of the time tests are shown as given in the table below.

Excavator

Job time (hour) Job1 Job2 Job3

1549 2 4 10 8 3 10 6 3


(b) Formulate a mathematical model to obtain the minimum time.

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