A foreign-car wholesaler with warehouses in New York and Baltimore receives orders from dealers in Philadelphia and

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A foreign-car wholesaler with warehouses in New York and Baltimore receives orders from dealers in Philadelphia and Trenton. The dealer in Philadelphia needs 4 cars, and the dealer in Trenton needs 7. The New York warehouse has 6 cars, and the Baltimore warehouse has 8. The cost of shipping cars from Baltimore to Philadelphia is $120 per car, from Baltimore to Trenton is $90 per car, from New York to Philadelphia is $100 per car, and from New York to Trenton is $70 per car. Find the number of cars to be shipped from each warehouse to each dealer to minimize the shipping cost.
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Finite Mathematics and Its Applications

ISBN: 978-0134768632

12th edition

Authors: Larry J. Goldstein, David I. Schneider, Martha J. Siegel, Steven Hair

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