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Transportation Problems A total of 5481 boxes of face masks are in stock across 9 branches of a medical product are supplying company, A, B,

Transportation Problems

A total of 5481 boxes of face masks are in stock across 9 branches of a medical product are supplying company, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, with the number of boxes in stock as shown in Table 4.

Table 4

Branches

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

Number of boxes in stock

234

543

754

877

456

236

876

563

942

In combating the spread of COVID-19, 9 Grocery stores, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, ordered in boxes of face masks from that 9 branches. The number of boxes ordered are as shown in Table 5.

Table 5

Grocery stores

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Number of boxes ordered

500

600

300

700

590

800

300

200

400

The delivery expenses (in $) for each one box of face masks from a branch to a grocery stores are as shown in table 6.

Table 6

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

A

0.14

0.2

0.32

0.32

0.54

0.44

0.55

0.340

0.65

B

0.35

0.32

0.21

0.19

0.51

0.33

0.32

0.45

0.54

C

0.16

0.14

0.11

0.16

0.48

0.21

0.22

0.54

0.2

D

0.23

0.18

0.22

0.14

0.43

0.34

0.16

0.56

0.1

E

0.45

0.23

0.33

0.16

0.19

0.4

0.11

0.65

0.4

F

0.67

0.76

0.4

0.3

0.21

0.32

0.34

0.32

0.55

G

0.56

0.87

0.67

0.22

0.11

0.19

0.5

0.1

0.56

H

0.76

0.65

0.7

0.6

0.17

0.14

0.3

0.06

0.43

I

0.77

0.88

0.99

0.65

0.23

0.17

0.21

0.08

0.32

By using [Solver], determine the ways of delivering all the face masks ordered from the 9 branches to the 9 grocery stores, where the total expenses on delivery is minimized. Attach one(1) screenshot from Microsoft Excel/LibreOffice Calc alongside with your answers.

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