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Due to demographic changes and the resulting reduction in tax revenues, your community sch...

Due to demographic changes and the resulting reduction in tax revenues, your community school corporation is faced with the problem of closing one or more elementary schools, and redrawing service areas for those scheduled to remain open. Describe in general terms the structure of an optimization model that could be developed to help suggest an optimal strategy for school consolidation. Include in your description:

a. what constraints should be considered in your model,

b. what would be the most appropriate objective function for your model, and

c. what data would need to be collected in order to build your model.

If you had such a model, suggest how it might be used 10 address specific complaints that might arise regarding any one specific consolidation alternative.

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