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Introduction to Management Science 12th Edition by Bernard Taylor

Edition 12ISBN: 978-0133778847

Introduction to Management Science 12th Edition by Bernard Taylor

Edition 12ISBN: 978-0133778847

Exercise 51

Steel mills in three cities produce the following amounts of steel:

These mills supply steel to four cities, where manufacturing plants have the following demand:

Shipping costs per ton of steel are as follows:

Because of a truckers' strike, shipments are prohibited from Birmingham to Chicago. Formulate this problem as a linear programming model and solve it by using the computer.

Explanation

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Linear Programming
It is a mathematical...