The Doan Modianos Manufacturing Company is putting out seven new electronic components. Each of Modianos’

eight plants has the capacity to add one more product to its current line of electronic parts. The unit manufacturing costs for producing the different parts at the eight plants are shown in the accompanying table. How should Modianos assign the new products to the plants in order to minimize manufacturing costs?

ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS L 0 1 

PLANTS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 C53 $0.10 $0.12 $0.13 $0.11 $0.10 $0.06 $0.16 $0.12 C81 0.05 0.06 0.04 0.08 0.04 0.09 0.06 0.06 D5 0.32 0.40 0.31 0.30 0.42 0.35 0.36 0.49 D44 0.17 0.14 0.19 0.15 0.10 0.16 0.19 0.12 E2 0.06 0.07 0.10 0.05 0.08 0.10 0.11 0.05 E35 0.08 0.10 0.12 0.08 0.09 0.10 0.09 0.06 G99 0.55 0.62 0.61 0.70 0.62 0.63 0.65 0.59