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have three Suppliers and four Demanders.
the Suppliers have inventory of 61, 49, 29 respectively,
and the Demanders require 54, 37, 4, 44 respectively.
Shipping costs from S1 to D1, D2, D3, D4 are 107, 34, 72, 58
from S2 to D1, D2, D3, D4 are 20, 99, 88, 39
from S3 to D1, D2, D3, D4 are 44, 48, 50, 105.
Check that this is a balanced transportation problem.
Find the optimal mimimal shipping cost: I
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