A New Surgical Facility Called Cut & Sew Has Opened

Multiple Choice

A new surgical facility called Cut & Sew has opened in the United States. The branches of the facility are spread throughout the country. These are job shops that handle a variety of outpatient surgical procedures. The process of the facility is set up in a way that one doctor will cut and another will sew. The data regarding the patients and the estimated time for cutting and sewing for each patient are given in the following table:
$\begin{array} { | l | l | l | } \hline \text { Patient } & \text { Cut Time (hours) } & \text { Sew Time (hours) } \\\hline \mathrm { A } & 2.3 & 2.8 \\\hline \mathrm { B } & 2.5 & 3.0 \\\hline \mathrm { C } & 2.0 & 1.5 \\\hline \mathrm { D } & 0.6 & 1.0 \\\hline \mathrm { E } & 3.6 & 2.6 \\\hline\end{array}$
Using Johnson's sequencing rule, the final sequence of the patients is _____.

A) A-B-C-D-E
B) B-E-A-C-D
C) C-A-B-E-D
D) D-A-B-E-C