Chapter 5, Problem 24QP

BETTER PRODUCTS COMPANY has decided to start manufacturing four new products in three plants that currently have excess production capacity. The products require comparable production effort per unit, so the available production capacity in the plants is measured by the number of units of any product that can be manufactured per day. a)Formulate this problem as a transportation problem by constructing the appropriate parameter table. I already have an optimal solution (it's from the book). (I dont understand)-------------------------------------------------------------------------OPTIMAL SOLUTION:It has basic variables (assignments) X₁₂ = 30, X₁₃ = 30, X₁₅ = 15, X₂₄ = 15, X₂₅ = 60, X₃₁ = 20 and X₃₄ = 25, so that: Plant 1 produces all of products 2 and 3.Plant 2 produces 37.5% of product 4.Plant 3 produces 62.5% of product 4 and all of product 1. The total cost of Z = $3 260 per day.-------------------------------------------------------------------------Instructions:Please explain this…

BETTER PRODUCTS COMPANY has decided to start manufacturing four new products in three plants that currently have excess production capacity. The products require comparable production effort per unit, so the available production capacity in the plants is measured by the number of units of any product that can be manufactured per day. a)Formulate this problem as a transportation problem by constructing the appropriate parameter table. I already have an optimal solution (it's from the book). (I dont understand)-------------------------------------------------------------------------OPTIMAL SOLUTION:It has basic variables (assignments) X₁₂ = 30, X₁₃ = 30, X₁₅ = 15, X₂₄ = 15, X₂₅ = 60, X₃₁ = 20 and X₃₄ = 25, so that: Plant 1 produces all of products 2 and 3.Plant 2 produces 37.5% of product 4.Plant 3 produces 62.5% of product 4 and all of product 1. The total cost of Z = $3 260 per day.-------------------------------------------------------------------------Instructions:Please explain this…

BETTER PRODUCTS COMPANY has decided to start manufacturing four new products in three plants that currently have excess production capacity. The products require comparable production effort per unit, so the available production capacity in the plants is measured by the number of units of any product that can be manufactured per day. a)Formulate this problem as a transportation problem by constructing the appropriate parameter table. I already have an optimal solution (it's from the book). (I dont understand)-------------------------------------------------------------------------OPTIMAL SOLUTION:It has basic variables (assignments) X₁₂ = 30, X₁₃ = 30, X₁₅ = 15, X₂₄ = 15, X₂₅ = 60, X₃₁ = 20 and X₃₄ = 25, so that: Plant 1 produces all of products 2 and 3.Plant 2 produces 37.5% of product 4.Plant 3 produces 62.5% of product 4 and all of product 1. The total cost of Z = $3 260 per day.-------------------------------------------------------------------------Instructions:Please explain this…