Suzuki Motors is a leading car manufacturer in India manufacturing cars at its Gurgaon facility.

Suzuki Motors has manufactured 500 cars. These cars are to be transported to its customers in Vizag and Chennai. Four hundred cars are ordered from Chennai and hundred from Vizag. The vehicles traveling to Chennai take three routes as depicted in the figure. The number above each arrow represents the cost (in thousands of rupees) necessary to transport one car from origin city to destination city. The company wants to minimize its cost selecting the routes.
a. Formulate a linear programming model to this problem.
b. Solve this model using computer.

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Gurgaon Supply 500 3 5 Demand 100 Vizag Mumbai 2 Hyderabad 8 7 Demand 400 Chennai