A book binder has one printing press, one binding machine and manuscripts of 7 different books. The times required for performing printing and binding operations for different books are shown below.Book1234567Printing time (hours)209080201201565Binding time (hours)25607530903550Decide the optimum sequence of processing of books in order to minimize the total time required to bring out all the books.

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A book binder has one printing press, one binding machine and manuscripts of 7 different books. The times required for performing printing and binding operations for different books are shown below.

Book	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Printing time (hours)	20	90	80	20	120	15	65
Binding time (hours)	25	60	75	30	90	35	50

Decide the optimum sequence of processing of books in order to minimize the total time required to bring out all the books.

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