A contractor, Susan Meyer, has to haul gravel to three building sites. She can purchase as much as 18 tons at a gravel pit in the northof the city and 14 tons at one in the south. She needs 10, 5, and 10 tons at sites 1, 2, and 3, respectively. The purchase price per tonat each gravel pit and the hauling cost per ton are given in the table below. Susan wishes to determine how much to haul from each pitto each site to minimize the total cost for purchasing and hauling gravel.Hauling Cost per Ton at SitePit13Price per TonNorth$30$60$50$100South$60$30$40$120Now suppose that trucks (and their drivers) need to be hired to do the hauling, where each truck can only be used to haul gravel froma single pit to a single site. Each truck can haul 5 tons, and the cost per truck is five times the hauling cost per ton given above. Onlyfull trucks would be used to supply each site.a. Formulate this problem as an assignment problem by constructing the appropriate cost table, including identifying theassignees and tasks.b. Find the optimal assignmenAttach FileBrowse Local FilesBrowse Content Collection

(a) Given that each truck can haul 5 tons of gravel and the cost per truck is five times the hauling…

A contractor, Susan Meyer, has to haul gravel to three building sites. She can purchase as much as 18 tons at a gravel pit in the north of the city and 14 tons at one in the south. She needs 10, 5, and 10 tons at sites 1, 2, and 3, respectively. The purchase price per ton at each gravel pit and the hauling cost per ton are given in the table below. Susan wishes to determine how much to haul from each pit to each site to minimize the total cost for purchasing and hauling gravel.

A contractor, Susan Meyer, has to haul gravel to three building sites. She can purchase as much as 18 tons at a gravel pit in the north of the city and 14 tons at one in the south. She needs 10, 5, and 10 tons at sites 1, 2, and 3, respectively. The purchase price per ton at each gravel pit and the hauling cost per ton are given in the table below. Susan wishes to determine how much to haul from each pit to each site to minimize the total cost for purchasing and hauling gravel.

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