Refer to the Shipping Costs for The Allied Motors 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 cost of shipping from Chattanooga to Newark is approximately ______.



a. $893

b. $432

c. $672

d. $576


d. $576

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