a).Create a working table taking lines as rows and destinations as columns  b). Determine the Cheapest route and Most expensive route to use c).Use the Northwest Corner Method to distribute the products

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Chapter6: Optimization Models With Integer Variables
Section6.5: Set-covering And Location-assignment Models
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KCS Ltd has got three production lines with the same production costs namely; K, L, and S whose production capacities are 140, 160, and 200 units respectively. These are marketed through four destinations B, C, J, and M having demands of 110, 150, 140, and 100 units respectively. The transportation cost between the production lines and market destinations are; K to B, K to C, K to J, K to M, L to B, L to C, L to J, L to M, S to B, S to C, S to J, and S to M as 18, 11, 13, 29, 19, 25, 15, 28, 24, 27, 19, and 12 respectively all costs are US dollars. 

a).Create a working table taking lines as rows and destinations as columns 

b). Determine the Cheapest route and Most expensive route to use

c).Use the Northwest Corner Method to distribute the products

d).Vogel’s Approximation Technique

e).Compute their respective total costs incurred

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