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Question 4 a. ABC Ltd. Wants to choose the best location for its new aluminum plant. The manager of productions and operations has three possible locations to choose from. His assistant recommends that he use break-even analysis location technique to help determine which location is best based on costs. I. Design a numerical example in order to demonstrate to the Productions and Operations Manager how break-even analysis can be used in this case. [5 marks] II. Demonstrate to the OM manager how to go about choosing the best location using the numerical example you designed above. [10 marks] b. The staff training centre of a telecommunications company provides training for its regional employees every year. The capacity of the training centre was designed to train 1,800 employees per year. Due to the complexity of the programmes, the most employees that centre can train per year is 1,400. In the past year, 1,350 employees were trained. Calculate:- i. The efficiency rate of the training centre. ii. The utilisation rate of the centre. [5 marks) [5 marks]