ROFiL Pizza Delivery Is Planning to Open New Stores in Different

question 28

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:

Solve 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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Definitions:

Special-Interest Effects

The impact that a small, focused group can have on policy-making to secure benefits for itself, often at the expense of the larger public interest.

Concentrated Benefits

Economic or political benefits that are narrowly distributed to a small, specific group, often leading to imbalanced influence or decision-making.

Diffuse Costs

Diffuse costs are expenses that are spread out and not easily attributed to a single product, project, or activity, often indirect in nature.

Unintended Consequences

Outcomes that are not the ones foreseen or intended by a purposeful action.