Question: can someone help me with this pls Case Problem 2: The Pearlsburg (West Virginia) Rescue Squad serves a mountainous, rural area in southern West Virginia.
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Case Problem 2: The Pearlsburg (West Virginia) Rescue Squad serves a mountainous, rural area in southern West Virginia. The only access to the homes, farms, and small crossroad communities and villages is a network of dirt, gravel, and poorly paved roads. The rescue squad had just retumed from an emergency at Blake's Crossing, and two of the squad members, Melanie Hart and Ben Cross, were cleaning up and getting the truck back in proper order for the next call. "You know, Ben," said Melanie, "that was close. We could have lost little Randy if we had been a few minutes later in getting to their farm." "Yep," said Ben. After a moment Melanie continued, "I was sort of wondering about the route Dave took to get there. It seems to me if we had gone around by Cedar Creek, we could have gotten there a few minutes sooner. And as close as things got, a few minutes could have made a big difference, don't you think?" "Yep," said Ben. "Well, I was wondering, Ben, why don't we study all these different ways to get to the little communities and farms around here so we will always know what the quickest way to all the different places is?" Ben thought a moment before answering. "It would take us a while to time all the different ways you could get from here to everywhere we go." "That's true," Melanie answered, "but I've been studying a way to work out this sort of problem in one of my college courses. All we have to do is get the times it takes to travel each piece of road between all these little communities, and I think I can do the rest. Will you help me?" "Sure," Ben said. "Okay, then, here's what we'll do. I'll write down all the routes you should time, and I'll time the rest all the way over to Holbrook." Here is the combined list of times (in minutes) Melanie and Ben compiled for all the route segments between Pearlsburg and Holbrook: Q1) Determine the shortest routes from Pearlsburg to all the different communities and farms visited by the rescue squad. The Zephyr Television Company ships televisions from three warehouses to three retail stores on a monthly basis. Each warehouse has a fixed supply per month, and each store has a fixed demand per month. The manufacturer wants to know the number of television sets to ship from each warehouse to each store in order to minimize the total cost of transportation. Each warehouse has the following supply of televisions available for shipment each month: Each retail store has the following monthly demand for television sets: Costs of transporting television sets from the warehouses to the retail stores vary as a result of differences in modes of transportation and distances. The shipping cost per television set for each route is as follows

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