Question: Please answer this question PLUS the one included below the picture. 37. If all the data stays the same as in the previous question, except

Please answer this question PLUS the one included below the picture.Please answer this question PLUS the one included

37. If all the data stays the same as in the previous question, except the outbound transportation cost increases to $1.75/ton-mile and the sawmill becomes more efficient, now able to covert 20,000 tons of logs into 16,000 tons of lumber (all of which are shipped to the lumber retailer), where would the ton-mile center be located?

x=88

x=90

x=110

x=112

None of the answers shown are correct

Question 36 10 pts Bubba's Lumber Co. (BLC) has a retail lumber customer that has asked them to add a sawmill in Washington state to supply their new location. BLC has secured property with a bountiful forest located 200 miles west of the retail location. A straight highway exists between the forest and the retail location, and land, electricity, etc. is available anywhere along the highway to locate the sawmill. The output of the sawmill will be 12,000 tons/year of lumber, all going directly east to the lumber retailer location at an outbound transportation cost of $1.50/ton- mile. This will require inputs of 20,000 tons/year of logs coming from the forest at an inbound transportation cost of $1.10/ton-mile. If we consider the forest to be located at x=0 and the retailer to be located at x=200, where should the sawmill be located to minimize the combined inbound and outbound transportation costs, otherwise known as the ton-mile center? O x=88 x=90 x=110 O x=112 None of the answers shown are correct

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