Light-Twilight Inc. currently has four workshops for manufacturing light bulbs and five warehouses where the produced light bulbs are shipped from the workshops for storage. The cost, demand, and volume details are given as below:
a. Formulate a mixed-integer programming model to identify two workshops the management should retain in order to fulfil the estimated demand that minimizes the cost.
b. Solve the model you formulated in part a. What is the optimum cost?

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Light-Twilight Inc. currently has four workshops for manufacturing light bulbs and five warehouses where the produced light bulbs are shipped from the workshops for storage. The cost, demand, and volume details are given as below:
  a. Formulate a mixed-integer programming model to identify two workshops the management should retain in order to fulfil the estimated demand that minimizes the cost.
b. Solve the model you formulated in part a. What is the optimum cost?

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The Answer of Light-Twilight Inc. currently has four workshops for manufacturing light bulbs and five warehouses where the produced light bulbs are shipped from the workshops for storage. The cost, demand, and volume details are given as below:
  a. Formulate a mixed-integer programming model to identify two workshops the management should retain in order to fulfil the estimated demand that minimizes the cost.
b. Solve the model you formulated in part a. What is the optimum cost?