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As the new facilities manager at Hardin Company, you have been asked to determin

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Question

As the new facilities manager at Hardin Company, you have been asked to determine the layout for four departments on the fourth floor of the company's headquarters. Following is a map of the floor with distances between the areas.

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Click the icon to view the number of interdepartmental trips made per day.

The maximum possible number of arrangements is

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(Enter your response as a whole number.)

The total distance of the given layout is

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More Info 1 15 meters 35 meters 38 meters Print Done

Explanation / Answer

1) There are 4 departments, so maximum possible number of arrangements

= 4!/4

= 6

2) Total distance of the given layout

= SUMPRODUCT(Distance between departments, Trips between departments)

= 40*15+10*35+45*38+20*38+30*35+35*15

= 4995 meters