DO NOT USE EXCEL!!

DO NOT USE EXCEL!!

Bindley Company has a one-year contract to supply motors for all washers produces by Rins@ Ltd. Rinso produces the washers at four locations listed as below. Plans call for the following numbers of washers to be produced at each. Bindley has three plants that can produce the motors. The plants and production capacities are: Bindley earns on each 1000 units depends on where they were produced and where they were shipped. The following table gives the accounting estimates of the dollar profit per unit for Bindley. (Shipment will be made in lots of 1000 units.) Given profit maximization criterion, Bindley would like to determine how many motors should be produced at each plant and how many motors should be shipped from each plant to each destination. Define the decision variables clearly and formulate a linear programming (LP) model to maximize Bindley's profit. Don't use Excel to solve it