Question: # 2 Consider a distribution system that consists of three regional distributors, two local warehouses, and three retail stores. The augmented table below provides the

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Consider a distribution system that consists of three regional distributors, two local warehouses, and three retail stores. The augmented table below provides the shipping costs per unit of a certain product from each distributor to each warehouse and from each warehouse to each store.
\table[[,Warehouse 1,Warehouse 2,],[Distributor 1,$0.78,$0.91,],[Distributor 2,$0.82,$0.79,],[Distributor 3,$0.84,$0.78,],[$0.57,$0.49,Store 1],[$0.44,$0.61,Store 2],[$0.72,$0.68,Store 3],[$0.67,$0.61,Store 4],[Warehouse 1,Warehouse 2,]]
There are 44 units of the product at Distributor 1,52 units at Distributor 2, and 37 units at Distributor 3. The demands for this period are 30 units for Store 1,41 units for Store 2,29 units for Store 3, and 26 units for Store 4.
Formulate a transshipment model to minimize the total cost over the shipping network. You do not need to include the network diagram or solve the LP.
 #2 Consider a distribution system that consists of three regional distributors,

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