Hi, would you be able to help me with this question? Thanks A firm producing a single product has three plants and four customers. The three plantswill produce 3, 000, 5, 000 and 4, 000 units, respectively, during the next time period. Thefirm has made a commitment to sell 4, 000 units to customer A, 3, 000 units to customerB, and at least 1, 000 units to customer C. Both customers C and D also want to buy asmany of the remaining units as possible. The net profit associated with shipping a unit fromplant i for sale to customer j is given by the following table.CustomerABD165636264Plant268676562363605960Management wishes to know how many units to sell to customers C and D and how manyunits to ship from each of the plants to each of the customers to maximize profit.a) Formulate this problem as a transportation problem by constructing the appropriatecost and requirements table.b) Use the Vogel's approximation method to obtain an initial basic feasible solution andthen use the transportation simplex method to obtain the optimal solution for theproblem as formulated in (a).

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