A Company Wants to Locate a New Warehouse to Minimize

question 35

Essay

A company wants to locate a new warehouse to minimize the longest distance travelled by any of its delivery trucks. It has four stores and their coordinates are listed in the below. Let X and Y represent the X, Y coordinates of the new warehouse. The NLP for this problem and solution is the following. Solution is (X, Y) = (120.0, 117.4). What values should go in cells B2:D9 of the spreadsheet for this problem?

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