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The Childfair Company has three plants that produce child push chairs to ship to four distribution centers. The document provides the monthly shipments from each plant and the distance from each plant to each distribution center. It asks to formulate this as a transportation problem to minimize total shipping costs of $100 per shipment plus $0.50 per mile. The second question details four cargo ships that can ship goods between one port to four other ports, with varying costs provided. It asks to assign the four ships to the four ports to minimize total shipping costs.

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Group Exercise 3

The Childfair Company has three plants that produce child push chairs to ship to four distribution centers. The document provides the monthly shipments from each plant and the distance from each plant to each distribution center. It asks to formulate this as a transportation problem to minimize total shipping costs of $100 per shipment plus $0.50 per mile. The second question details four cargo ships that can ship goods between one port to four other ports, with varying costs provided. It asks to assign the four ships to the four ports to minimize total shipping costs.

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Question 1.

The Childfair Company has three plants producing child


push chairs that are to be shipped to four distribution centers. Plants 1,
2, and 3 produce 12, 17, and 11 shipments per month, respectively. Each
distribution center needs to receive 10 shipments per month. The
distance from each plant to the respective distribution centers is given
below.

Distance to Distribution Center (Miles)


Plant
1 2 3 4
1 800 1,300 400 700
2 1,100 1,400 600 1,000
3 600 1,200 800 900

The freight cost for each shipment is $100 plus 50 cents/mile. How much
should be shipped from each plant to each of the distribution centers to
minimize the total shipping cost? Formulate this problem as a
transportation problem on a spreadsheet and then use Solver to obtain
an optimal solution.
Question 2. Four cargo ships will be used for shipping goods from one
port to four other ports (labeled 1, 2, 3, 4). Any ship can be used for
making any one of these four trips. However, because of differences in
the ships and cargoes, the total cost of loading, transporting, and
unloading the goods for the different ship–port combinations varies
considerably, as shown in the following table
Port
Ship
1 2 3 4
1 $ 500 $ 400 $ 600 $ 700
2 $ 600 $ 600 $ 700 $ 500
3 $ 700 $ 500 $ 700 $ 600
4 $ 500 $ 400 $ 600 $ 600

The objective is to assign the four ships to four different ports in such a
way as to minimize the total cost for all four shipments. The objective is
to assign the four ships to four different ports in such a way as to
minimize the total cost for all four shipments.

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