Question 3
A parts supplier must assign supply from 5 warehouses (W1, W2, W3, W4 and W5) to 3 customers (C1, C2 and C3), such that the total demand of 300 units for the three customers is satisfied. The warehouse capacities are 85, 55, 75, 65 and 40, for W1, W2, W3, W4 and W5 respectively. A warehouse can supply any number of customers. The cost to supply a customer from a given warehouse is provided in Table-1.Given this information, answer the subquestions.
How many constraints are present in the standard primal formulation of the given problem? (Note: Exclude the count of non-negativity constraints when you input your answer)