Problem 1:

A company is considering 4 western locations for a new training facility. You have recommended that to decide which is best, they use the Factor Rating Method. Upper Management Team provides you with the 6 factors and scores for 4 potential locations as indicated in the table below:

The day before you are ready to present your findings to the Upper Management Team the CEO calls you and says that the Board of Directors expressed some degree of discomfort in making the industrial incentives so important. In fact, they might not even take them if offered, believing there is "no such thing as a free lunch." They believed that the weights instead should be:

Problem 2:

You have been hired by the Governor help locate the management center for a group of rural healthcare facilities. You have decided to start the process with a Center of Gravity approach. The number of employees from each city's current healthcare center will be used for weighting, as it is those employees that must travel to the management center. You have gathered the following data:

Prepare a bubble chart, weighting the bubbles by the number of employees. Choose an arbitrary weight for the size of the management center. Be sure you clearly identify the x, y coordinates for the training facility.