Solution

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Let be shipped amounts, with column sums equal to shop demand and row sums at most 15. Total demand is 42, so three units of warehouse stock need not be shipped. A feasible transportation problem allocation is
Its row sums are and its column sums meet every demand. The cost is .
For a transportation dual certificate with capacity inequalities, choose warehouse potentials and shop potentials . They have and for every cell. Any feasible allocation therefore has
The second inequality has this direction because and warehouse use is at most 15. The exhibited allocation attains the lower bound, so the minimum cost is .

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