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. What formula would you place in cell B6 to calculate Total Lot Area?

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Definitions:

Universal Generalization

A logical operation that asserts that a property or relation holds for all members of a certain category.

Existential Generalization

A logical operation that infers the existence of at least one member of a group from a statement about an individual or individuals.

Existential Instantiation

A principle in logic and philosophy that allows from the acknowledgment of the existence of at least one instance of a particular predicate.

Universal Instantiation

A logical rule that states if a property or relation holds for all members of a class or domain, then it holds for any specific member of that class or domain.