A manufacturing concern has five departments (labeled A through E) located in a rectangular building as shown above Use the diagram, flow data, and cost data. Do NOT do parts A and B as stated in the problem. a. Is the distance matrix that is given closer to rectilinear or Euclidean distance? b. Which metric results in a larger value for the total flow times cost times distance (or total cost) for the current layout, rectilinear or Euclidean distance? Why? c. Using the rectilinear distance metric and assuming that flow is from the centroid of each department calculate the total cost for the current layout. I have checked previous answers so please do not copy and paste or use chatGPT. Want explanations and corrects answers

6 LAYOUT PLANNING MODELS AND DESIGN ALGORITHMS Suppose the flow data, the unit cost data, and the distance matrix are given as follows: a. Using the CRAFT two-way exchange procedure, indicate all the department pairs CRAFT would consider exchanging in the above layout. b. Compute the estimated cost of exchanging departments A and E. Scanned with CamScanner