Paper 3, Section II, H
Part IB, 2009
Four factories supply stuff to four shops. The production capacities of the factories are and 9 units per week, and the requirements of the shops are 8 units per week each. If the costs of transporting a unit of stuff from factory to shop is the th element in the matrix
find a minimal-cost allocation of the outputs of the factories to the shops.
Suppose that the cost of producing one unit of stuff varies across the factories, being respectively. Explain how you would modify the original problem to minimise the total cost of production and of transportation, and find an optimal solution for the modified problem.