Home-Base, a home improvement/building supply chain, is going to build a new warehouse facility to serve its stores in six North Carolina cities€”Charlotte, Winston- Salem, Greensboro, Durham, Raleigh, and Wilmington. The coordinates of these cities (in miles), using Columbia, South Carolina, as the origin (0, 0) of a set of coordinates, and the annual truckloads that supply each city are shown as follows:

a. Determine the best site using the center-of-gravity technique.
b. Look at a map of North Carolina, and identify the closest town to the grid coordinates developed in Part (a). Looking at the map, can you suggest a better location in the vicinity? Explain youranswer.

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Charlotte Winston-Salem x-42 Greensboro 85 W 160 y 145 w 105 145 W- 90 Durham Wilmin x 180 x 135 y- 125 W 60 Y- 140 W- 75