AQA D1 2014 June — Question 1

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleD1 (Decision Mathematics 1)
Year2014
SessionJune
TopicMatchings and Allocation

1 Five people, \(A , B , C , D\) and \(E\), are to be allocated to five tasks, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 . The following bipartite graph shows the tasks that each person is able to undertake.
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  1. Represent this information in an adjacency matrix.
  2. Initially, \(A\) is allocated to task 3, \(B\) to task 2 and \(C\) to task 4.
    1. Demonstrate, by using an alternating-path algorithm from this initial matching, how each person can be allocated to a different task.
    2. Find a different allocation of people to tasks.