The document discusses several assignment problems involving allocating jobs or tasks to machines, employees, clerks or cities in an optimal way to minimize time, cost or maximize returns. Specific problems include assigning 5 jobs to 5 machines to minimize total time, assigning jobs to machines to maximize total returns, assigning 4 jobs to 3 staff to minimize total time, assigning clerks to tasks where some assignments are prohibited, and finding the optimal tour for a salesman to visit 5 cities while minimizing total distance traveled. Solutions to these assignment problems are to be found using techniques like the assignment algorithm, Hungarian method, column reduction, row reduction and prohibiting certain assignments.