Please breakdown on how to solve, thank you in advance! Three departments – mill

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Please breakdown on how to solve, thank you in advance!

Three departments – milling (M), drilling (D), and sawing (S) – are assigned to three work areas in Samuel Smith’s machine shop in Baltimore. The number of work pieces moved per day and the distances between the centers of the work areas, in feet, are shown below.

Pieces moved per day between work areas are:

Distances in feet between centers of work areas are: M D

It costs $4 to move 1 work piece 1 foot. The total material handling cost of the layout = $ ____________ (enter your response as a whole number).

Explanation / Answer

Total Material Handling Cost = (24*24+32*32+18*18)*$4= $7696

Explanantion : SInce 24 units moved a distance of 24 feet and the cost movement of a unit is $4 per feet

24*24*$4

Similary 32 units, 32 feets at the rate of $ 4

and 18 units, 18 feets at the rate of $4

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