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2.) Your business provides technical support for very complex and specialized machinery used by companies throughout the country, and you currently have support centers at 5 locations. However, due to a poor market, you have been forced to close your centers in Houston and San Diego. You will have to relocate all of your technicians in these two centers to your other three centers in Cleveland, Seattle, and Charlotte. Due to the varying costs of living in each city, and travel and retraining times, the cost for relocating an employee varies depending on where the employee is moving. These costs are given in the following table: To: From: Cleveland Seattle Charlotte $5,000 | $7,000 $7,000 $4,000 $6,000 $8,000 Houston San Diego You currently have 40 employees in Houston and 55 employees in San Diego, which all need to be relocated. Cleveland is able to take in at most 35 relocated employees, Seattle can take in at most 32 employees, and Charlotte is able to take in at most 50 employees.…

Small Potatoes is a family-operated seed business that has grown rapidly. Small Potatoes specializes in supplying home gardeners with the finest seeds and gardening supplies. Until now, the firm has done all its business by placing ads in gardening and health magazines, and taking orders using a toll-free telephone number. Now, the family has decided to establish a website and sell online, but there is some disagreement about the best way to proceed. Some say it would be better to develop the site on their own, and Betty Lou Jones, a recent computer science graduate, believes she can handle the task. Others, including Sam Jones, Betty’s grandfather, feel it would be better to outsource the site and focus on the business itself. Suppose the family asked for your opinion. What approach would you take? What additional questions would you ask?  Does this appear to identify diversity, equity and inclusion?