5-26 A trauma center keeps ambulances at locations throughout the east side of a city in an attempt to minimize the response time in the event of an emergency. The times, in minutes, from the...

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A trauma center keeps ambulances at locations throughout the east side of a city in an attempt to minimize the response time in the event of an emergency. The times, in minutes, from the ambulance locations to the population centers are given in the table at the top of the next column.














































Population Centers
Ambulance LocationsEastNortheastSoutheastCentral
Site 1128913
Site 21091110
Site 311121411
Site 41311129

Find the optimal assignment of ambulances to population centers that will minimize the total emergency response time.

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Answer To: 5-26 A trauma center keeps ambulances at locations throughout the east side of a city in an attempt...

Suraj answered on Dec 02 2021
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Sheet1
        Population Centers
    Ambulance locations    East    Northeast    Southeast    Central            Row min
    Site
1    12    8    9    13            8
    Site 2    10    9    11    10            9
    Site 3    11    12    14    11            11
    Site 4    13    11    12    9            9
    Subtract row minimum from all elements of each row.
        Population Centers                        Column min
    Ambulance locations    East    Northeast    Southeast    Central
    Site 1    4    0    1    5            0    1st column
    Site...
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