A Professor Has Been Contacted by Four Not-For-Profit Agencies That

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Essay

A professor has been contacted by four not-for-profit agencies that are willing to work with student consulting teams. The agencies need help with such things as budgeting, information systems, coordinating volunteers, and forecasting. Although each of the four student teams could work with any of the agencies, the professor feels that there is a difference in the amount of time it would take each group to solve each problem. The professor's estimate of the time, in days, is given in the table below. Use the Hungarian method to determine which team works with which project. All projects must be assigned and no team can be assigned to more than one project.
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Definitions:

Axons

Long, slender projections of nerve cells, or neurons, that typically conduct electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body.

Keyboard

A set of keys or buttons used for inputting data into a computer or other device.

Dendrite

The branched projections of a neuron that act to conduct the electrochemical stimulation received from other neural cells to the cell body, or soma.

Neuron

A nerve cell that is the basic building block of the nervous system, responsible for transmitting information throughout the body.