With two practical examples, explain clustering as pertain in location decisions? ii. Explain two reasons why clustering is important?

i. A telecommunications firm is planning to lay fibre optic cable from several community colleye distance learning sites to a central studio, in such a way that the miles of cable are minimired.

Some locations require more than one set of cables (these are the loads). Where should the studio be located to accomplish the objective?

QUESTION 3 The design capacity of a certain job shop is 120 units per day, the shop tas a wiliation of 75% Determine the efficiency of the job shop if its effective capacity is 85% of its design capacity. [10 Marks] b. Tiger Island Fabricators, which builds oftshore oil platfoms, hes been experiecting problams with its profiling machine, a computer-driven device that cuts the ends of pipe so that is can be welded to another pipe, as shown in the date below. Each time a machine breaks down, the company uoso murber of bresbdonns bo coe preventive maintenance, it will be able to reduce the number of beeabdonns bo ose per moath Preventive maintenance costs would be $500 a month. Is preventive option? QUESTION 4 differentiation, how does this impact the eritera wsed for selecting supplies? [5 M arb] b. "Proximity" or closeness implies that a fin shoula baste "joss i. What are the three kinds of proximity in location scice? (5) to use each of these? c. In these days of Covid 19, describe any thee rechoologigal advinees thar ato bo [5 Marts] the spread of the virus at UPSA? END OF PAPER