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Table M8-18 LW Enterprises Is a Specialty Cat Breeder with Operations Located

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Table M8-18
LW Enterprises is a specialty cat breeder with operations located in Wichita, Oklahoma City, Nashville, Lubbock and Enumclaw.These cats are used as historical reenactors on US Civil War battlefields throughout the summer months.Clad in Union blue or Confederate gray and equipped with their tiny rifles and saucers of milk, they thrill crowds of Civil War buffs from Gettysburg all the way down to Vicksburg.The cost (in dollars) of shipping each cat from all possible combinations of supply and demand locations is shown in the table.

-Where does Nashville ship most of their cats in order to minimize the overall total cost of shipping for the scenario presented in Table M8-18?

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