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Transportation problems
Teaching steps
1. Design an activity that can be used to engage students in
understanding the concept of a transportation problem. Assist
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them in recognizing only a balanced transportation problem.

2. Assist students through discussions to use Figures 7.1(a) and
(b) in the Student’s Book to demonstrate the transportation
of goods / products from two sources to two destinations and
from two sources to three destinations, respectively.

Formulation of transportation problems
Teaching steps
1. Guide students through discussion to formulate the
transportation problem. Lead them through discussion to use
Figure 7.2 in the Student’s Book to describe the transportation
of goods/ products from two sources to two destinations.

2. Assist students through discussion to use Figure 7.3 in the
Student’s Book to describe the transportation of goods/
products from two sources to three destinations.
3. Guide students through discussion to formulate the objective
function and the constraints from the corresponding decision
variables.
4. Use Examples 7.1 and 7.2 in the Student’s Book to guide
students to formulate transportation problems. Encourage
students to explore additional resources, such as online
tutorials, or reference books, to enrich their understanding and
further practice.

5. Instruct students to attempt Exercise 7.1 in the Student’s Book.
Advise them to submit their work. Check the correctness of
their answers, and provide them constructive feedback.

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