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Liquid Gold, Inc. transports radioactive waste from nuclear power plants to disposal sites around and about the country. Each plant has an amount of material that must be moved each period. Each site has a limited capacity per period. The cost of transporting between sites is given here (see attached). Develop and solve a transportation model for this problem.

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