When CRAFT evaluates the exchange of departments, instead of actually exchanging the departments, it only exchanges the centroids of departments.

a. What is the impact of this method of exchanging if all departments are the same size?

b. Given the following from-to chart and scaled layout (each square is 1 1), what does the evaluation of the exchange of departments B and C indicate should be saved over the existing layout, and what is actually saved once this exchange is made?

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