We are given a list of jobs, along with the number of minutes it would take to c

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We are given a list of jobs, along with the number of minutes it would take to complete each job. Our goal is to schedule these jobs to minimize the average completion time. Example: Consider three jobs, job A that takes 50 minutes to complete, B that takes 20 minutes, and C that takes 35 minutes to complete. If we schedule the jobs in the order A, B, C, then job A completes at time 50, job B completes at time 70. and job C completes at time 105. Then average competition time is 50+70+105/3 = 75. Note that this ordering is not optimal. Give the pseudocode for a greedy algorithm that gives an optimal solution to this problem. Justify your answer. Analyze the running time of your algorithm.

Explanation / Answer

Pseudocode:

Step 1:We want to minimize average time.so sort all jobs according to minimum to maximum completion time.

Step 2:Let there are n task t1,t2,.......tn

   and c1,c2,.......cn be completion time.

Step 3:Find avearge compltion time cavg=(c1+c2....cn)/n

  c1 =t1, c2 = (t1 + t2),c3 = (t1 + t2+t3)....................................

Hence cavg = (t1 + (t1 + t2) + … + (t1 + t2 + … + tn)) / n

Hence we get minimum completion time as we have already sorted time.

Run time Complexity:

Best case will be O(nlogn) as sorting of processing time takes  O(nlogn) by merge sort.We can use other sort also but it will affect complexity.Best sorting is merge sort.

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