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Bindley Corporation has a one-year contract to supply motors for all washing machines produced by Rinso Ltd. Pinso manufactures the washers at four locations around the country: New York City, Fort Worth, San Diego, and Minneapolis. Plans call for the following numbers of washing machines to be produced at each location: New York City 50, Fort Worth San Diego Minneapolis 70, 60, 80, Bindley has three plants that can produce the motors. The plants and production capacities are Boulder Macon Gary l , l , 15 , Due to varying production and transportation costs, the profit Bindley earns on each 1,000 units depends on where they were produced and where they were shipped. The following table gives the accounting department estimates of the dollar profit per unit. (Shipment will be made in lots of 1,000.) PRODUCED AT Boulder Macon Gary NEW YORK CITY 7 20 8 SHIPPED TO FORT SAN DIEGO MINNEAPOLIS WORTH 11 17 18 8 12 13 13 10 16 Given profit maximization as a criterion, Bindley would like to determine how many motors should be produced at each plant and how many motors should be shipped from each plant to each destination. a. Develop a transportation grid for this problem. Frommo New York C Fort Worth San Die o Minnea oli Su I Boulder Macon R uirements b. Find the optimal solution using Microsoft Excel, (Note: Due to existing transportation contracts, Macon must ship 50,000 motors to Fort Worth and O motors to San Diego. These requirements are already shown in the Candidate Solution below.) Note: Leave the cells blank, whenever zero (O) is required. Candidate Solution New York City Fort Worth San Diego Minneapoli Boulder Macon Total su Profit Boulder Macon Total Shi ed 50,000 50 ooo lied New York Ci o Fort Worth 50,000 50,000 San Diego o Minneapolis Total roflt