Petra works for One-Stop Pets, a Chicago based dog groomer. They have recently decided to offer...

 

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Petra works for One-Stop Pets, a Chicago based dog groomer. They have recently decided to offer a new service for dog owners. One-Stop Pets will now pick up dogs, walk them, groom them, and then drop them back off at home. Petra has been assigned 3 dogs (Lassie, Molly, and Tingo) and is told she needs to bring them all to One-Stop Pets by 8:00 AM. Petra likes efficiency and planning: She wants to know the latest time she can leave from One-Stop Pets and still deliver all the dogs to One-Stop Pets on time. Luckily, Petra lives above One-Stop Pets, so she leaves from and returns to One-Stop Pets on her walk to pick up the dogs. The time (minutes) it takes to walk between the locations are shown below. Lassie Molly Tingo One-Stop Pets Lassie Molly Tingo One-Stop Pets 0 20 14 9 20 0 14 5 5 0 12 10 9 12 10 0 a. Develop a linear optimization model to find the latest time Petra can leave from One-Stop Pets and the route she should take. Write down your decision variables and formulas for the objective function and constraints below. b. [2 points] Constraints (C, second part): For the type of problem you are solving for Petra, it is standard practice to use constraints which ensure that all locations are visited in one loop. That is, it would not be useful to have a solution where Petra goes back and forth between two locations and never continues. PA to another location. Please describe how you will ensure that this condition is met and implement your strategy within the Excel model. Petra works for One-Stop Pets, a Chicago based dog groomer. They have recently decided to offer a new service for dog owners. One-Stop Pets will now pick up dogs, walk them, groom them, and then drop them back off at home. Petra has been assigned 3 dogs (Lassie, Molly, and Tingo) and is told she needs to bring them all to One-Stop Pets by 8:00 AM. Petra likes efficiency and planning: She wants to know the latest time she can leave from One-Stop Pets and still deliver all the dogs to One-Stop Pets on time. Luckily, Petra lives above One-Stop Pets, so she leaves from and returns to One-Stop Pets on her walk to pick up the dogs. The time (minutes) it takes to walk between the locations are shown below. Lassie Molly Tingo One-Stop Pets Lassie Molly Tingo One-Stop Pets 0 20 14 9 20 0 14 5 5 0 12 10 9 12 10 0 a. Develop a linear optimization model to find the latest time Petra can leave from One-Stop Pets and the route she should take. Write down your decision variables and formulas for the objective function and constraints below. b. [2 points] Constraints (C, second part): For the type of problem you are solving for Petra, it is standard practice to use constraints which ensure that all locations are visited in one loop. That is, it would not be useful to have a solution where Petra goes back and forth between two locations and never continues. PA to another location. Please describe how you will ensure that this condition is met and implement your strategy within the Excel model.

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