#4. Solve the following transportation problem using the Northwest corner metho

Consider a small company with three sources of supply: Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax. These may either be manufacturing facilities or warehouses for a foreign firm doing business in Canada. The capacities of each of these locations are 500, 400 and 300 units respectively. These locations need to supply markets in four other cities: London, Ottawa, Kingston and Quebec City. The requirements of each of these locations are respectively: 450, 350, 250 and 150 units. The major costs are from the transportation of the units. The following costs per unit have been estimated for each of the routes.

To	London	Ottawa	Kingston	Quebec City
From
Toronto	$6	9	8	13
Montreal	12	17	6	7
Halifax	11	14	13	10

• Write out the NW corner solution
• Find the total cost for your NW corner solution