When not cooking for Cody and Lucky, Don works part-time as a logistics expert. Don needs to optimize the shipment of plastic plates from the Plants in Miami, St. Louis, and Cleveland to the customers in Pittsburg, Atlanta, and Chicago.

Don wants to minimize the cost of shipping the plastic plates from the plants to the customers. The data for the problem is summarized in the following table.

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Plant Miami St. Louis Cleveland Demand Distance From Plants to Customers Pittsburgh Atlanta 1200 700 700 550 125 675 61 60 Chicago 1300 300 350 20 Supply 30 61 50