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Ford has four automobile plants. Each is capable of producing the Taurus, Lincoln, or Escort, but it can only produce one of these cars. The fixed cost of operating each plant for a year and the variable cost of producing a car of each type at each plant are given in Table 51. Ford faces the following restrictions: a. Each plant can produce only one type of car. b. The total production of each type of car must be at a single plant; that is, for example, if any Tauruses are made at plant 1, then all Tauruses must be made there. c. If plants 3 and 4 are used, then plant 1 must also be used. Each year, Ford must produce 500,000 of each type of car. Formulate an IP whose solution will tell Ford how to minimize the annual cost of producing cars. TABLE 51:
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VerifiedThe company has four plants and three types of cars to manufacture. The goal is to determine which plant to operate and what type of car a plant must manufacture such that the total cost is minimum.
To do this, we must formulate an Integer Programming model that satisfies the conditions. The following steps will show how to form each part of the IP model.
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