After some special presentations, the employees of an event planning center have to move dining chairs back to their original storage locations. The table below indicates the buildings where the chairs are now (the sources), where they need to go (the destinations), and a measure of the distance between sites.

Source
	Business	Education	Parsons Hall	Holmstedt Hall	supply
Baker Hall	9	10	4	2	34
Tirey Hall	13	10	1	7	11
Arena	16	15	6	5	21
Demand	11	21	11	9

(a)If you were going to write this as a linear programming model, how many decision variables would there be?How many constraints would there be? T 

From	To Destination
From Origin	1	2	3	4
1	11	21	0	2
2	0	0	11	0
3	0	0	0	7

• Total Transportation Cost or Revenue is 359
• Note: The Total Supply Exceeds The Todal Demand By 14

Origin	Excess Supply
3	14

(b)How many chairs are moved from Baker to Business?(c)How many chairs are moved from Tirey to Parsons?(d)How many chairs are moved from Arena to Education?(e)Which site(s) has (have) chairs left?  

Tirey Hall

Arena

Business

Education

Parsons Hall

Holmstedt Hall

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a To write this problem as a linear programming model we would typically have the following variable... View the full answer