Previous Question sported to an electric power plant where it will be used as fuel. Data for the hauling of refuse from each site to the power A municipal solid-waste site for a city must be located at Site A or Site B. After sorting, some of th plant are shown in the table below. Site A Site B Average hauling distance Annual rental fee for solid-waste site Hauling cost 5 miles 4 miles $4,000 $110,000 $1.43lyd-mile $1.43lyd'-mile f the power plant will pay $8.06 per cubic yard of sorted solid waste delivered to the plant, where should the solid-waste site be located? Use the city's viewpoint and assume that 200,000 cubic yards of refuse wil be hauled to the plant for one year only. One site must be selected. The total cost of locating the power plant at the Site A is S (Round to the nearest dollar.)
Previous Question sported to an electric power plant where it will be used as fuel. Data for the hauling of refuse from each site to the power A municipal solid-waste site for a city must be located at Site A or Site B. After sorting, some of th plant are shown in the table below. Site A Site B Average hauling distance Annual rental fee for solid-waste site Hauling cost 5 miles 4 miles $4,000 $110,000 $1.43lyd-mile $1.43lyd'-mile f the power plant will pay $8.06 per cubic yard of sorted solid waste delivered to the plant, where should the solid-waste site be located? Use the city's viewpoint and assume that 200,000 cubic yards of refuse wil be hauled to the plant for one year only. One site must be selected. The total cost of locating the power plant at the Site A is S (Round to the nearest dollar.)
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A municipal solid-waste site for a city must be located at Site A or Site B. After sorting, some of ti
plant are shown in the table below.
hsported to an electric power plant where it will be used as fuel. Data for the hauling of refuse from each site to the power
Site A
Site B
Average hauling distance
5 miles
4 miles
$110,000
Annual rental fee for solid-waste site
$4,000
Hauling cost
$1.43/yd"-mile
$1.43/yd'-mile
If the power plant will pay $8.06 per cubic yard of sorted solid waste delivered to the plant, where should the solid-waste site be located? Use the city's viewpoint and assume that 200,000 cubic yards of refuse will be hauled to the plant for one
year only. One site must be selected.
The total cost of locating the power plant at the Site A is $. (Round to the nearest dollar.)
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