ROFiL Pizza Delivery Is Planning to Open New Stores in Different

question 6

Essay

ROFiL Pizza Delivery is planning to open new stores in different other regions so that the excess demand for the pizza home delivery services is met. The locations under consideration and the potential areas (coded in numbers 1-9) that can be reached quickly from the considered locations for home delivery are given in the following table:

Formulate an integer programming model that could be used to find the minimum number of stores to open in order to cover customers of all areas for the home delivery service.

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Transcendentalists

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