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Nice Trailer company makes trailers at plants in Kansas City, Denver, and Raleigh, and ships...

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Nice Trailer company makes trailers at plants in Kansas City, Denver, and Raleigh, and ships these units to distribution centers in Birmingham, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, and Seattle. In planning production for the next year, Nice Trailer company estimates unit shipping cost between any plant and distribution center, plant capacities, and distribution center demands. These numbers are given in the table. Nice Trailer company faces the problem of determining how much to ship between each plant and distribution center to minimize the total transportation cost, while not exceeding capacity and while meeting demand.

Formulate an LP to minimize the total shipping cost and identify the constraints and objective function for the above case.

Using the table below to answer the following question:

Alternative

State of Nature

Good market

Average market

Poor market

Build large office

75,000

25,000

-40,000

Build small office

100,000

35,000

-60,000

Do nothing

0

0

0

Probability

0.25

0.5

0.25

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