South Africa is one of the largest coal producing and exporting countries in the world. A company dealing with coal sources coal from four coalfields—Highveld, Emalehleni, Ermelo, and Klip River. The capacities of the four coalfields are:

The cost of transporting a ton of coal between locations are tabulated below along with available capacity at coal mines and exact demand requirements at the steel plants.

Formulate this problem as a linear programming model and solve it using computer.

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Coalfield Highveld Emalehleni Ermelo Klip River Capacity (tons) 100 150 180 200 630