Question: Network design problem using Excel Solver (USE Simplex LP in the solver) Canton has built a new elementary school so that the town now has

Network design problem using Excel Solver (USE Simplex LP in the solver)
Canton has built a new elementary school so that the town now has a total of five schoolsAddison, Beeks, Canfield, Daley, and Eden. The school wants to assign children to schools so that their travel time by bus is as short as possible. The school has partitioned the town into five districts conforming to population densitynorth, south, east, west, and central. The average bus travel time from each district (supply) to each school (demand) is shown as follows:
Determine the number of children that should be assigned from each district to each school in order to minimize total student travel time.
Network design problem using Excel Solver (USE
23 Addison Beeks Canfield Daley Eden 17 23 35 17 26 15 21 27 18 20 15 31 29 24 35 15 15 10 23 300 400 300 400 North South East West Central Demand Supply 370 15 400 25 350 21 220 280 3 16 11 300

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