Discuss the following:
Q: The Patricia Garcia company is currently producing seven new medical products. Each of Garcia's eight plants can add one more product to its current line of medical devices. The unit manufacturing costs for producing the different parts at the eight plants are shown below. How should Garcia assign the new products to the plants in order to minimize manufacturing costs?
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P1 |
P2 |
P3 |
P4 |
P5 |
P6 |
P7 |
P8 |
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| C53 |
.1 |
.12 |
.13 |
.11 |
.1 |
.06 |
.16 |
.12 |
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| C81 |
.05 |
.06 |
.04 |
.08 |
.04 |
.09 |
.06 |
.06 |
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| D5 |
.32 |
.4 |
.31 |
.3 |
.42 |
.35 |
.36 |
.49 |
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| D44 |
.17 |
.14 |
.19 |
.15 |
.1 |
.16 |
.19 |
.12 |
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| E2 |
.06 |
.07 |
.1 |
.05 |
.08 |
.1 |
.11 |
.05 |
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| E35 |
.08 |
.1 |
.12 |
.08 |
.09 |
.1 |
.09 |
.06 |
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| G99 |
.55 |
.62 |
.61 |
.7 |
.62 |
.63 |
.65 |
.59 |
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