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Big Red Bookstore Wants to Ship Books from Its Warehouses

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Big Red Bookstore wants to ship books from its warehouses in Brooklyn and Queens to its stores, one on Long Island and one in Manhattan. Its warehouse in Brooklyn has 700 books and its warehouse in Queens has 2,300. Each store orders 1,500 books. It costs $1 to ship each book from Brooklyn to Manhattan and $2 to ship each book from Queens to Manhattan. It costs $5 to ship each book from Brooklyn to Long Island and $4 to ship each book from Queens to Long Island.
If Big Red has a transportation budget of $8,900 and is willing to spend all of it, how many books should Big Red ship from each warehouse to each store in order to fill all the orders


A) Brooklyn to Manhattan: 1,200
Queens to Manhattan: 300
Brooklyn to Long Island: 400
Queens to Long Island: 1,100

B) Brooklyn to Manhattan: 400
Queens to Manhattan: 1,100
Brooklyn to Long Island: 400
Queens to Long Island: 1,100

C) Brooklyn to Manhattan: 400
Queens to Manhattan: 1,100
Brooklyn to Long Island: 300
Queens to Long Island: 1,200

D) Brooklyn to Manhattan: 500
Queens to Manhattan: 1,000
Brooklyn to Long Island: 300
Queens to Long Island: 1,200

E) Brooklyn to Manhattan: 500
Queens to Manhattan: 1,000
Brooklyn to Long Island: 400
Queens to Long Island: 1,100

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