Consider the below transportation problem. A product is produced in three cities, Atlanta, Boston, and Chicago, and sold in Lexington, Miami, and Nashville Transportation costs between cities shown in chart in the top.

Required:

a) Write a network flow model for this problem.

b) Write the linear program model for this problem.

c) Solve this with the transportation simplex method.

d) Is there an alternative optimal solution? Explain.

e) How many variables and how many constraints does

 

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