Problem 3:Regional Office Coordiantes (x,y)NTampa Post Office must be relocated by otherin a new location, much bigger and modern, tobe able to absorb the huge mail flow.Ybor City-10,53Davis Island-3,8Dale-MabryGiven received and delivered mailing, istransported from regional offices to the centraloffice, the new location can produce significantdifferences about the deliverance efficiency, asin terms of cost as time. Using the datarepresented in the attached table, calculate thelocation for the new facilities as the center of-4,7Palma Cela-15,1Bayshore-13,3Temple Terrace-1,12Hyde ParkN = Number of delivery trucks per day-5,510gravity.

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