Appendix B. Answers to Selected Problems

Chapter 10

10.1. Site 3 has the highest factor rating: 86.56.

10.3. The proposed new facility should be near (7.97, 6.69).

10.5.

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Possible locations are 2,5 or 2,4 or 1,5. At least two stations are needed.

10.7. To aid in this analysis, we assign a rating of 4 for each A grade, 3 for a B, 2 for a C, and 1 for a D. Rent receives a weight of 1.0, walk-in traffic 0.90, and distance a weight of 0.72 (which is 80% of the 0.90 weight for traffic).

Downtown rating = 2.24; shopping mall rating = 3.24; Coral Gables rating = 2.42

The shopping mall is recommended.

10.9. Layout #1: ∑∑ TijDij = 600; layout #2: ∑∑ T ...

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