Question: A highway contractor needs to locate a single supply point to provide road building materials to four projects. The four projects, which are all approximately

  1. A highway contractor needs to locate a single supply point to provide road building materials to four projects. The four projects, which are all approximately the same magnitude, are located at the following coordinates. Coordinate units are in miles. (Marks 10)

X (East)

Y (North)

Project A

50

10

Project B

15

60

Project C

40

60

Project D

30

20

  1. What is the center of gravity?
  2. If a single truck were sent from center-of-gravity to each project and back (four round trips), how many miles would be traveled?

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