Big Rock Paper Scissors, Inc. operates paper plants in Chicago, Illinois, and The Bronx, New York. Warehouse facilities are located in Queens, New York, and Nashville, Tennessee. Distributors are located in Florida, Maine, and North Carolina. The Chicago plant has a capacity of three hundred units and the Bronx plant has a capacity of one-hundred units. Florida has a demand of one-hundred-fifty units, Maine has a demand of one-hundred units, and North Carolina has a demand of one-hundred-fifty units. The unit transportation costs *in dollars* for shipments from the two plants to the two warehouses are presented in Table 4 and those from the two warehouses to the three distributors are presented in Table 5. a. Please neatly draw the network representation of the Big Rock Paper Scissors, Inc problem. b. Please formulate the Big Rock Paper Scissors, Inc problem as a linear programming problem. c. Lastly, solve the linear program to determine the minimum cost shipping schedule for the problem. *PLEASE SOLVE ALL* (A-C) thank you
Big Rock Paper Scissors, Inc. operates paper plants in Chicago, Illinois, and The Bronx, New York. Warehouse facilities are located in Queens, New York, and Nashville, Tennessee. Distributors are located in Florida, Maine, and North Carolina. The Chicago plant has a capacity of three hundred units and the Bronx plant has a capacity of one-hundred units. Florida has a demand of one-hundred-fifty units, Maine has a demand of one-hundred units, and North Carolina has a demand of one-hundred-fifty units. The unit transportation costs *in dollars* for shipments from the two plants to the two warehouses are presented in Table 4 and those from the two warehouses to the three distributors are presented in Table 5.
a. Please neatly draw the network representation of the Big Rock Paper Scissors, Inc problem.
b. Please formulate the Big Rock Paper Scissors, Inc problem as a linear programming
problem.
c. Lastly, solve the linear program to determine the minimum cost shipping
for the problem.
*PLEASE SOLVE ALL* (A-C) thank you
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