3. PLBT is attempting to determine the optimal location for training facility for its operators. Theoperators are located in 4 centers and training facility to serve these centers. The coordinatesare given as follows:CenterCoordinates123411423228Y69315845no. of operatorsin thousand3.46.84.5Determine the optimal coordinates of the training facility.4.Your company is planning to move to a new location, and have asked your 200 employees, whatfactors are the most important to them in the new location. For each of the factors given below, thenumber next to the factor is the number of employees that put the factors first, or second inimportance. After this evaluation, you asked each person to rank the location first for the given factor.LocationFactorsABPersonal Safety (150)807050Proximity to the Day Care (100)508070Access to public transportation (100)Parking (150)1004060906050The above ratings were then used to develop a score from 0 to 1 for each location with 1 being the best.On this scale determine the best location. 1. A manager has received an analysis of several cities being considered for a new office complex.The data are:FactorLocationTranspoТахCOLACRECCSBSA437В778.6.8.4877If the manager weighs the factor equally, how would the locations *stack up? * load.eile, packa.b. If Construction cost and business services are given weights that are double the weights of theother factors, how would the locations stack up?2. MFA hopes to open a rust proofing shop. Customer would be local new car dealers. TwoI newlocations are being considered, one in the center of the city and one outside. The central citylocation would involve a monthly fixed cost of $7000 and labor, material and transportation costof $30 per car. The outside location would have fixed monthly cost of $4700 and labor,materials and transportation costs of $40 per car. Dealer price at either location will be $90 percar.a. Which location will yield the greatest profit if demand is A) 200 cars B) 300 cars.b. At what volume of output will these two sites yield the same monthly profit?

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1. A manager has received an analysis of several cities being considered for a new office complex. The data are: Factor Location Transpo Таx COLA C REC cs BS wwwww A 4 3 7 В 7 7 6 5 8 8 7 5 2 If the manager weighs the factor equally, how would the locations stack up? loed pile, pack b. If Construction cost and business services are given weights that are double the weights of the other factors, how would the locations stack up?

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