E4 Determinethe minimum overall shipping cost. Note: It is not possible to ship product from warehouse 3 to city 4. One way to ensure that no product gets shipped when there is an impossible shipping path is to assign a very high cost to the prohibited shipping route.Click the icon to view the weekly city demands.Click the icon to view the weekly warehouse capacities.Click the icon to view the cost to ship an item from four warehouses to five cities.Click the icon to view the optimal shipping plan.The minimum overall shipping cost is $. (Enter your response as a whole number.)More InfoFrom ToWarehouse 1Warehouse 2Warehouse 3Warehouse 4City 127292029City 232312717More InfoFromWarehouse 1251915Warehouse 2Warehouse 3Warehouse 4DemandCity 330City 418333000City 110,000010,000City 535263032$27$29$20$292000City 215,500$32$31$27$1715,500Print00ToCity 35,0008,000$30$25$19$1513,000WarehouseWarehouse 1Warehouse 2Warehouse 3Warehouse 49,00000City 40Done$18$33$309,000012,5000City 50$35Weekly Shipping Capacity18,00012,50019,50023.500$26$30$3212,500ExcessSupply Supply18,000 9,00012.500 019,500 4,50023,500 0- XCityCity 1City 2City 3City 4City 5Weekly Demand10,00015,50013,0009,00012,500- X

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