Question: Consider the transportation problem having the following parameter table: (a) Notice that this problem has three special characteristics: (1) number of sources number of
Consider the transportation problem having the following parameter table:
(a) Notice that this problem has three special characteristics:
(1) number of sources number of destinations, (2) each supply 1, and (3) each demand 1. Transportation problems with these characteristics are of a special type called the assignment problem (as described in Sec. 8.3). Use the integer solutions property to explain why this type of transportation problem can be interpreted as assigning sources to destinations on a one-to-one basis.
(b) How many basic variables are there in every BF solution? How many of these are degenerate basic variables ( 0)?
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