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Solution) A company transports products from Asian ports to U.S. cities where they are placed in warehouses.

Question: A company transports products from Asian ports to U.S. cities where they are placed in warehouses. Then the products are moved from the warehouses to their distribution centers. The shipping costs ($/ton) from the Asian ports to the U.S. cities and the available supplies (tons) at the Asian ports are given in the following table:

	U.S City
Asian Port	4. San Diego	5. Seattle	6. Vancouver	Supply
1. Tokyo	$ 370	$ 590	$ 400	35
2. Singapore	570	450	490	58
3. Shanghai	340	460	430	37

The transportation costs ($/ton) from each U.S. city of the three distribution centers and the demands (tons) at the distribution centers are as follows:

	Distribution Center
Warehouse	7. San Antonio	8. Chicago	9. Atlanta
4. San Diego	$ 105	$ 90	$ 75
5. Seattle	48	62	75
6. Vancouver	55	43	61
Demand	40	25	30

Determine the optimal shipments between the Asian ports and the warehouses and the distributions centers to minimize total transportation costs. NOTE: You CANNOT use the transportation module in QM to solve this. It must be done with linear programming.

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