PT Ceria wants to assign its flagship manager to five offices located in five different countries that are currently experiencing problems. The five countries are Singapore, Japan, philippines, Hongkong and Vietnam. However, before being sent, each manager was tested on their estimated ability to resolve problems in each country, and as a result of these tests obtained data on the amount of time (days) each manager needed to resolve the issue in each country, which is described in the table below.

PT Ceria wants to assign its flagship manager to five offices located in five different countries that are currently experiencing problems. The five countries are Singapore, Japan, philippines, Hongkong and Vietnam. However, before being sent, each manager was tested on their estimated ability to resolve problems in each country, and as a result of these tests obtained data on the amount of time (days) each manager needed to resolve the issue in each country, which is described in the table below.

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