The Rent-A-C.4 car rental company allows its customers to pick up a rental car at one location and return it to any of its locations. Currently, two locations (1 and 2) ilave 1 6 and 18 smplus cars, respectively, and four locations (3, 9, 5, and 6) each need 10 cars. The costs of getting the surplus cars from locations 1 and 2 to the other loca-lims are summarized in the following table.
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Location 1 959 $17 $23 $30 Location 2 $29 $18 $19 $31
BeCaUSe 39 surplus cars are available at locations 1 and 2, and 90 cars are needed at locations 3, 9, 5, and 6, some locations will not receive as many cars as they need. However, management wants to make sure that all the surplus cars are sent where they are needed, and that each location needing cars receives at least 5. a. Formulate an L.11 model for tlOs problem. b. Create a spreadsheet model for tlOs problem, and solve it using Solver. c. what is the optimal solution?