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Rent-With-Us Management Inc. has purchased a large housing complex and must decide where to locate its offices and service facilities. The company has learned that locating each service in a different apartment building helps control the behavior of tenants, but it would also like to keep unnecessary transit time to a minimum. Data collected on movements between facilities during a six month period from a similar apartment complex are shown below. Construct a layout diagram on a 2 × 3 grid that minimizes nonadjacent movement.
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