The Rent-A-Dent car rental company allows its customers to pick up a rental car at one location and return it to any of its loca
tions. Currently, two locations (1 and 2) have 16 and 18 surplus cars, respectively, and four locations (3, 4, 5, and 6) each need 10 cars. The costs of getting the surplus cars from locations 1 and 2 to the other locations are summarized in the following table. Costs of transporting Cars between Locations
Location 3 Location 4 Location 5 Location 6
Location 1 $54 $17 $23 $30
Location 2 $24 $18 $19 $31
Because 34 surplus cars are available at locations 1 and 2, and 40 cars are needed at locations 3, 4, 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 five.
Required:
a. Formulate an LP model for this problem.
b. Create a spreadsheet model for this problem, and solve it using Solver.
c. What is the optimal solution?
<span>3/5 + 3/7 Multiply the denominator until they have the same common denominator. 21/35 + 15/35 Add the numerators but NOT the denominators Final Answer: 36/35 or 1 1/35</span>
The answer is parallel because Since parallel lines never cross, then there can be no intersection; that is, for a system of equations that graphs as parallel lines
