You are a sales representative for a publisher of college textbooks. Your sales area includes the states of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, Nebraska, and Texas. There are many college campuses spread throughout this six state area. Your goal is to visit each campus, but you want to make sure that you arrange your campus visits so that you travel the least amount of distance (in miles) between all of the different campuses. What type of information technology system will you use to determine the BEST ROUTE for you to take?

Cadbury has a chocolate factory in dunedin, new zealand. for easter, it makes two kinds of “easter eggs”: milk chocolate and dark chocolate. it cycles between producing milk and dark chocolate eggs. the table below provides data on these two products. demand (lbs per hour) milk: 500 dark: 200 switchover time (minutes) milk: 60 dark: 30 production rate per hour milk: 800 dark: 800 for example, it takes 30 minutes to switch production from milk to dark chocolate. demand for milk chocolate is higher (500lbs per hour versus 200 lbs per hour), but the line produces them at the same rate (when operating): 800 lbs per hour. a : suppose cadbury produces 2,334lbs milk chocolate and 1,652 lbs of dark chocolate in each cycle. what would be the maximum inventory (lbs) of milk chocolate? b : how many lbs of milk and dark chocolate should be produced with each cycle so as to satisfy demand while minimizing inventory?