Question 4.93
63. The accompanying tableau represents the shipping costs and supply-and-demand constraints for supplies of purified water to be shipped to companies that resell the water to office buildings.
- For each tableau, give a possible real-world setting for the problem.
- For each tableau, find the cost of shipping using the cells that were circled when you used the Northwest Corner Rule.
63.
(a)
A-9
(b)
(c) This tableau could represent how to meet the needs of two organic groceries with organic fruit from two suppliers.
(d) The cost associated with this way to ship is 46.