Obtain an initial basic feasible solution to the following transportation problem using Vogel’s approximation method.

Consider the problem of assigning five jobs to five persons. The assignment costs are given as follows. Determine the optimum assignment schedule.

A computer centre has got three expert programmers. The centre needs three application programmes to be developed. The head of the computer centre, after studying carefully the programmes to be developed, estimates the computer time in minitues required by the experts to the application programme as follows.

Assign the programmers to the programme in such a way that the total computer time is least.

Find the optimal solution for the assignment problem with the following cost matrix.