A City Wants to Locate 2 New Fire Fighting Ladder

question 23

Essay

A city wants to locate 2 new fire fighting ladder trucks to maximize the number of tall buildings which they can cover within a 3 minute response time. The city is divided into 4 zones. The fire chief wants to locate no more than one of the trucks in either Zone 1 or Zone 2. The number of tall buildings in each zone and the travel time between zones is listed below.
Based on this ILP formulation of the problem what values should go in cells B5:G24 of the following Excel spreadsheet?
Let X_i = 1 if truck located in zone i, 0 otherwise

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the probability of a behavior is changed by its consequences, such as rewards or punishments.

Stimulus Generalization

The process by which a conditioned response is made in response to stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus but not identical.

Classically Conditioned

The process by which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response.

Rectangle

A quadrilateral with four right angles and opposite sides that are parallel and of equal length.