The Patricia Garcia Company is producing seven new medical products. Each of Garcia's eight plants can add one more product to its current line of medical devices. The unit manufacturing costs for producing the different parts at the eight plants are shown in the table above. How should Garcia assign the new products to the plants to minimize manufacturing costs?
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PLANT
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ELECTRONIC
COMPONENT
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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C53
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$0.10
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$0.12
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$0.13
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$0.11
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$0.10
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$0.06
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$0.16
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$0.12
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C81
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0.05
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0.06
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0.04
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0.08
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0.04
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0.09
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0.06
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0.06
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D5
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0.32
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0.40
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0.31
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0.30
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0.42
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0.35
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0.36
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0.49
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D44
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0.17
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0.14
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0.19
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0.15
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0.10
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0.16
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0.19
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0.12
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E2
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0.06
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0.07
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0.10
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0.05
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0.08
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0.10
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0.11
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0.05
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E35
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0.08
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0.10
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0.12
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0.08
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0.09
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0.10
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0.09
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0.06
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G99
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0.55
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0.62
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0.61
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0.70
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0.62
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0.63
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0.65
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0.59
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