Question: A small machine shop has five existing machines ( M 1 through M 5 ) located at coordinate locations P 1 = ( 1 0

A small machine shop has five existing machines (M1 through M5) located at coordinate
locations P1=(10,25),P2=(10,15),P3=(15,30),P4=(20,10),P5=(25,25), respectively. Two new
machines (N1 and N2) are to be located in the shop. It is anticipated that there will be 4 trips per
day between the new machines. The number of trips per day between each machine and each
existing machine is
a. Formulate the objective function assuming that rectilinear distance is used.
b. Formulate the objective function assuming that Euclidean distance is used.
 A small machine shop has five existing machines (M1 through M5)

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