AQA D2 2007 June — Question 2

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleD2 (Decision Mathematics 2)
Year2007
SessionJune
TopicMatchings and Allocation

2 The daily costs, in pounds, for five managers A, B, C, D and E to travel to five different centres are recorded in the table below.
ABCDE
Centre 110118125
Centre 21151167
Centre 31287114
Centre 410914106
Centre 599789
Using the Hungarian algorithm, each of the five managers is to be allocated to a different centre so that the overall total travel cost is minimised.
  1. By reducing the rows first and then the columns, show that the new table of values is
    36360
    40602
    64360
    23830
    02002
  2. Show that the zeros in the table in part (a) can be covered with three lines and use adjustments to produce a table where five lines are required to cover the zeros.
  3. Hence find the two possible ways of allocating the five managers to the five centres with the least possible total travel cost.
  4. Find the value of this minimum daily total travel cost.