Exhibit 8.2 The Following Questions Pertain to the Problem and Spreadsheet Below

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Short Answer

Exhibit 8.2
The following questions pertain to the problem and spreadsheet below.
A construction company just purchased a 300 × 300 foot lot upon which they plan to build an office building. They need at least 60,000 ft² of office floor space. Zoning regulations require each floor be 10 feet high and the building not exceed 65 ft in height. Further, parking space must equal at least 30% of the total floor space available. The company's cost accountant uses a 60% factor of the building height and a 1% factor of any story's floor area to calculate the total building cost (in millions of dollars).
The following is the NLP formulation for the problem. The spreadsheet implementation of this formulation applies to the following questions.
-Refer to Exhibit 8.2. The company wishes to have a relatively square building. Thus, they wish neither the building length nor the building width exceed the other by more than 25%. Add constraint(s) to enforce this design constraint.

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Definitions:

Inelastic Demand

A situation where the demand for a product does not significantly change in response to changes in its price.

Business Travel

The act of traveling for the purpose of conducting business-related activities.

Price Elasticity

Indicates the responsiveness of the quantity demanded or supplied of a good to a change in its price.

Supply Curves

Graphical representations showing the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity supplied by producers at that price.