9 Consider a long roll of wallpaper that repeats its pattern every yard. Four sheets of wallpaper must be cut from the roll. With reference to the beginning (point 0) of the wallpaper, the beginning and end of each sheet are located as shown in Table 78. Thus, sheet 1 begins 0.3 yd from the beginning of the roll (and 1.3 yd from the beginning of the roll) and sheet 1 ends 0.7 yd from the beginning of the roll

(and 1.7 yd from the beginning of the roll). Assume we are

at the beginning of the roll. In what order should the sheets be cut to minimize the total amount of wasted paper?
Assume that a final cut is made to bring the roll back to the beginning of the pattern.

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TABLE 78 Beginning End Sheet (Yards) (Yards) 1 0.3 0.7 -234 2 0.4 0.8 0.2 0.5 0.7 0.9