The Bunker Manufacturing firm has five employees and six machines and wants to assign the employees to the machines to minimize cost. A cost table showing the cost incurred by each employee on each machine follows:

Machine Employee A B C D E F 1 $12 $ 7 $20 $14 $ 8 $10 2 10 14 13 20 9 11 3 5 3 6 9 7 10 4 9 11 7 16 9 10 5 10 6 14 8 10 12 Because of union rules regarding departmental transfers, employee 3 cannot be assigned to machine E, and employee 4 cannot be assigned to machine B. Solve this problem, indicate the optimal assignment, and compute total minimum cost.

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