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Enter the number of employees you should relocate from Phoenix to each of the following destinations.

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What is the minimum cost?

Your business provides technical support for very complex and specialized machinery used by companies throughout the country, and you currently have support centers at five locations. However, due to a poor market, you have been forced to downsize your centers in Houston and Phoenix. You will have to relocate many of your technicians from these two centers to your other three centers in Cleveland, Seattle, and Memphis. Due to the varying costs of living in each city, and travel and re-training times, the cost for relocating an employee varies depending on where the employee is moving. These costs are given in the following table: To: From: Seattle Houston Cleveland $5000 $8000 $7000 $9000 Memphis $6000 $4000 Phoenix You currently need to relocate at least 55 employees from Houston and at least 40 employees from Phoenix. Cleveland is able to take in at most 35 relocated employees, Seattle can take in at most 60 employees, and Memphis is able to take in at most 20 employees. You must decide how many employees to relocate to each location to minimize your total cost. HINT: You should use the following decision variables to solve the problem. x]: Number of employees moved from Houston to Cleveland x2 : Number of employees moved from Houston to Seattle x3: Number of employees moved from Houston to Memphis X4: Number of employees moved from Phoenix to Cleveland x5: Number of employees moved from Phoenix to Seattle X6 : Number of employees moved from Phoenix to Memphis Step 1 of 3: Enter the number of employees to you should relocate from Houston to each of the following destinations. > Ne Answer 0.5 Points Keypad Keyboard Shortcuts From Houston to Cleveland: | From Houston to Seattle: From Houston to Memphis