Consider the transportation problem having the following parameter table:

(a) Using your choice of a criterion from Sec. 8.2 for obtaining the initial BF solution, solve this problem manually by the transportation simplex method. (Keep track of your time.)

(b) Reformulate this problem as a general linear programming problem, and then solve it manually by the simplex method.
Keep track of how long this takes you, and contrast it with the computation time for part (a).