Problem 1 CAF Food Product Inc. plans to purchase a new printer. There are five

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Problem 1 CAF Food Product Inc. plans to purchase a new printer. There are five departments that would need the service of the new printer. The departments' locations and their usage per week are as follows: Demand Per week 65 25 90 30 45 Dept, B55 Dept. A 10 Dept. C Dept. D Dept.E 0 30 75 45 30 25 Due to space constraint, there are only four possible locations to install the printer. They are: 15 50 Location 1 Location 2 Location 3 Location 4 20 70 25 65 Choose the best location to install the printer using: Euclidean distance in order to minimize the maximum total weighted travel distance per department 1. I distance per trip 3. Rectilinear distance in order to minimize the total weighted travel distance

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1)location 1

2) location 3

3)location 3

X Y weighted travel distance rectilinear distance weighted rectilinear distance 20 15 9846.371877 245 697450 70 50 12521.25071 250 699725 25 55 10346.07942 240 602225 65 0 12829.9634 305 1002950 Min 9846.37 240 602225 Location 1 Location 3 Location 3

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