Question: Assignment - 2 : Location analysis Solve the following problem using excel and evaluate the result. A Fan Manufacturing Company ( FMC ) is considering

Assignment-2: Location analysis
Solve the following problem using excel and evaluate the result.
A Fan Manufacturing Company (FMC) is considering expansion and evaluating where to
locate a new manufacturing plant. The FMC will handle 900 items of its production to a
main customer at coordinates (5,10) and 600 items to a second major customer at ,
. Six plant locations are under consideration:
A(17,14),B(11,17),C(16,22),D(12,21),E(14,24),F(19,15)
If we use rectilinear distance, which location will minimize total load-distance for MMC?
Moreover, on the second sheet of excel file (in same file), add two more plant locations
G(23,17) and H(12,14) and evaluate the result again.
 Assignment-2: Location analysis Solve the following problem using excel and evaluate

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