2022-189

Goods are transported by trucks from two orchards to three retailers. Some of the orchards cannot ship directly to some of the retailers. The capacities of the routes are limited by the number of trucks available and the number of trips made daily.  The following table shows in the margins the daily amounts of supply at the orchards and demand at the farms. The cell entries of the table specify the daily capacities of the associated routes.  All figures are in number of container boxes.

Determine the maximum amount of container boxes that can be shipped daily from orchards to retailers.

A. 24

B. 10

C. 54

D. 17

E. None of the above.

Original idea by: Muhammad Idrees