3. World foods, Inc. imports food products such as meats, cheeses, and pastries

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3. World foods, Inc. imports food products such as meats, cheeses, and pastries to the United States from warehouses at ports in Hamburg, Marseilles and Liverpool. Ships from these ports deliver the products to Norfolk, New York and Savannah, where they are stored in company warehouses before being shipped to distribution centers in Dallas, St. Louis and Chicago. The products are then distributed to specialty foods stores and sold through catalogs. The shipping costs ($/1,000 lb.) from the European ports to the U.S. cities and the available supplies (1000 lb.) at the European ports are provided in the following table:

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60

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45

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50

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Objective Minimize cost   = $77,362

3. Liverpool     0.00        37.00         0.00          37.00         <=      37

DISTRIBTION CENTER Warehouse 7.Dallas 8.St.Louis 9.Chicago Constraints Net Flow(distribution center) 4.Norfolk 0.00 42.00 0.00 42.00        = 42.00 5.New York 0.00 0.00 50.00 50.00        = 50.00 6.Savannah 60.00 3.00 0.00 63.00        = 63.00 Constraints

60

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Demand 60 45 50

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