The Owner of a Small Construction Firm Is Excavating at Three

question 37

Essay

The owner of a small construction firm is excavating at three sites.He wishes to assign his five additional trucks in such a way as to minimize his total costs.Each site can use zero to three additional trucks; no site can use more than three trucks efficiently.The following site total costs are known. ​
a.​
Use dynamic programming to find the assignment of the additional trucks that minimizes total cost.
b.​
If the owner had only four trucks to assign,what would be the optimal assignment and total cost?

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