Introduction to Management Science 12th Edition by Bernard Taylor

Exercise 22

The Burger Doodle restaurant chain purchases ingredients from four different food suppliers. The company wants to construct a new central distribution center to process and package the ingredients it uses in its menu items before shipping them to their various restaurants. The suppliers transport the food items in 40-foot tractor-trailer trucks. The coordinates of the four suppliers and the annual number of truckloads that will be transported to the distribution center are as follows:
Determine the set of coordinates for the new distribution center that will minimize the total miles traveled from the suppliers.