Assume there are five jobs (i.e., A, B, C, D and E) that need to be sequenced in a production schedule.The remaining operating time necessary for completion of job A is 4 days (i.e., job A will take 4 more days to complete), B will take 7 days, C will take 8 days, D will take 2 days, and E will take 5 days, which job should be scheduled first if you use the SOT priority rule for job sequencing?
A)A
B)B
C)C
D)D
E)E

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The SOT (shortest operating time) priority rule means that the job with the shortest remaining operating time should be scheduled first. Based on this rule, job D should be scheduled first because it has the shortest remaining operating time of only 2 days.

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