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In the United Copiers service center model, we assumed that the potential locations of service centers are the same as existing customer locations. Change the model so that the customer locations are...
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In the United Copiers service center model, we used total distance traveled as the objective to minimize. Suppose in addition that there is an annual fixed cost of locating a service center in any cit...
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Solve Problem 1 with the extra assumption that the investments can be grouped naturally as follows: 1–4, 5–8, 9–12, 13–16, and 17–20. a. Find the optimal investments when at most one investment from e...
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In the Green Grass shipping model, we assumed that certain inputs are the same for all plants or plant–customer combinations. Change this so that the unit production cost, the monthly fixed cost, and...
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In the optimal solution to the Green Grass shipping model, the Miami customer’s order is not satisfied. Suppose that Green Grass decides, as a matter of policy, to satisfy each customer’s order (at th...
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In the Green Grass shipping model, use SolverTable to perform a sensitivity analysis on the fixed cost of opening a plant, letting it vary over some reasonable range that extends below and above the c...
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In the United Copiers service center model, we assumed that a customer is serviced totally by a single service center. Suppose a customer can be serviced partly by multiple service centers. For exampl...
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In the Green Grass shipping model, we assumed that the plants are already built, so that in each month, the only decision is whether to open particular plants (at a monthly fixed cost). Consider inste...
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A software company is considering translating its program into French. Each unit of the program sells for $50 and incurs a variable cost of $10 to produce. Currently, the size of the market for the pr...
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In the Green Grass shipping model, we currently assume that if a customer’s order is satisfied, it must be satisfied from a single plant. Suppose instead that it can be satisfied from more than one pl...
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