Solution

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A transportation problem minimizes subject to nonnegative shipments, prescribed row supplies, and prescribed column demands.
One optimal shipment table is
which has the required row sums and column sums and costs .
For an optimality certificate, take row potentials and column potentials . Their sums equal costs in occupied cells and do not exceed any cost:
The dual value is , so linear programming duality proves optimality.

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