Three Jobs Are to Be Assigned to Three Machines

question 45

Multiple Choice

Three jobs are to be assigned to three machines. Costs for each job-machine combination appear in the table below. Find the total cost using the assignment method.

• A) 25
• B) 28
• C) 29
• D) 21
• E) 34

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Definitions:

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has been repeatedly presented alongside an unconditioned stimulus that elicits a natural response.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the diminishing of a conditioned response when the reinforcement or association is removed.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Fear Conditioning

A behavioral paradigm in which organisms learn to predict aversive events, linking a neutral stimulus with a fear-inducing situation.