Edexcel D2 2019 June — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleD2 (Decision Mathematics 2)
Year2019
SessionJune
TopicMatchings and Allocation

3. Five friends have rented a house that has five bedrooms. They each require their own bedroom. The table below shows how each friend rated the five bedrooms, \(\mathrm { A } , \mathrm { B } , \mathrm { C } , \mathrm { D }\) and E , where 0 is low and 10 is high.
ABCDE
Frank50734
Gill538101
Harry43790
Imogen63654
Jiao02732
Reducing rows first, use the Hungarian algorithm to obtain an allocation that maximises the total of all the ratings. You must make your method clear and show the table after each stage.
(Total 8 marks)