Mr. Johnson owns a grocery store chain that just recruited three new assistant managers, Donna, Tracy, and Marc. Each of the three assistant managers will be assigned to a regional store for training. There are four regional stores and they are located in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and Laredo. Mr. Johnson indicates that each regional store can only get at most one new assistant manager. The training costs are shown here in the table.

Trainees/Offices	Austin	Dallas	Houston	Laredo
Donna	$1020	$1350	$1500	$1005
Tracy	$1890	$2200	$1900	$1805
Marc	$1760	$1675	$1515	$1275

Part a) Mr. Johnson wants to minimize the total training cost. Use the network concept to create a network and its linear program for the above problem. Make sure you define the variables used and clearly list the objective function and constraints. You do not need to solve the program.Part b) If Laredo store is closed permenently due to budget reduction and no longer accept trainees. How will you modify your linear program from the previous part to include this update?

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