The Lafferty Company wants to locate a warehouse from which it will ship products to four customers. The location (in the x-y plane) of the four customers and the number of shipments per year needed...

The Lafferty Company wants to locate a warehouse from which it will ship products to four customers. The location (in the x-y plane) of the four customers and the number of shipments per year needed by each customer are given in Table 7.5. (All coordinates are in miles, relative to the point x =0 and y =0.) A single warehouse must be used to service all of the customers. Lafferty wants to determine the location of the warehouse that minimizes the total distance traveled from the warehouse to the customers.

Objective To find the warehouse location, using NLP, that minimizes the total annual distance traveled from the warehouse to the customers.