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$1$ Background

In this assessment, we will work on a company called MaveriCo, which has been operating

across dierent cities around the world. The management team is planning to expand

to the Kingdom of Square, a new market they recently identied. MaveriCo relied on a

key component provider, Kii Supplies, for its production. In order to expand to the new

market, MaveriCo has negotiated with Kii Supplies to set up a warehouse in the Kingdom

of Square. MaveriCo also decides to set up assembly facilities in the Kingdom of Square

to quickly respond to customers.

You were assigned for this project as the supply chain manager of MaveriCo! You will need

to design a proper supply network to support MaveriCo's operations in the Kingdom of

Square.

$2$ Data Collection

To start with the project, you requested some data from MaveriCo. MaveriCo believes

that the demand might be related to a city's population, or relates to the number of years

it stayed in the city, or both. Based on this assumption, they provided some data shown

in Table $1$ for the demand information across a number of cities.

Apparently, you want to check whether MaveriCo's assumption is correct and use your

ndings to gure out the potential demands for the cities in the Kingdom of Square.

Table $2$ presents the name, population, and the coordinates for each city. The distance

between any two cities can be assumed to be the Euclidean distance with a circuity factor

kCF of $1\mathrm{.}30.$

Your also checked with Kii Supplies about its preferred location for the warehouse. Kii

Supplies agreed to set up its warehouse based on the last digit of your student number as

shown in Table $2.$ For example, if the last digit of your student number is $`5\text{'},$ Kii Supplies

will set up its warehouse in Edoeld. Kii Supplies also recommended a transport company