A Transportation Problem Has 6 Origins and 12 Destinations

question 81

Essay

A transportation problem has 6 origins and 12 destinations.How many possible routes are there for this problem? What is the maximum number of routes that will be used in the optimal solution?

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Definitions:

Cost Curves

Graphical representations of how the costs of producing goods or services change with varying levels of output.

Perfectly Competitive

Referring to a market structure where there are many buyers and sellers, all selling homogeneous products, with no barriers to entry or exit, leading to price determination by supply and demand forces alone.

Monopolistically Competitive

A marketplace setup in which various enterprises deal in goods that are alike but not identical, affording them some degree of control in the market.

Cost Curves

Graphical representations showing the relationship between the cost of producing goods or services and the quantity produced.