-Refer to the Shipping Costs for the Terra Cotta Company

question 24

Multiple Choice

-Refer to the shipping costs for The Terra Cotta Company.Solve the transportation problem using Excel Solver.(Remember that in balanced transportation problems all constraints-except the non-negativity constraints of the decision variables-should be set as an equal-to (=) sign in the Excel Solver dialogue.) At the optimum solution,the total shipping costs are approximately ______.

• A)$150,000
• B)$950,000
• C)$215,000
• D)$425,000

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