Scott and Associates, Inc., is an accounting firm that has three new clients. Project leaders will be assigned to the three clients. Based on the different backgrounds and experiences of the leaders, the various leader-client assignments differ in terms of projected completion times. The possible assignments and the estimated completion times in days are as follows. Client
Project Leader 1 2 3
Jackson 10 16 32
Ellis 14 22 40
Smith 22 24 34
A) Develop a network representation of this problem.
B) Formulate the problem as a linear program, and solve. What is the total time required?