TOSSEK Manufacturing is a company offering a variety of electric scooters utilizing lithium iron phosphate batteries. To date, the TOSSEK Manufacturing company is considering three sites which are A, B, and C to locate a new factory for manufacturing its new model of electric scooters, the Gusto E-Bike. The firm knows it will produce up to 60,000 Gusto E-Bike at the new plant each year. The goal is to locate at a minimum-cost site, where cost is measured by the annual fixed plus variable costs of production. TOSSEK Manufacturing company has gathered the following data in Table 1 as follows:

TOSSEK Manufacturing is a company offering a variety of electric scooters utilizing lithium iron phosphate batteries. To date, the TOSSEK Manufacturing company is considering three sites which are A, B, and C to locate a new factory for manufacturing its new model of electric scooters, the Gusto E-Bike. The firm knows it will produce up to 60,000 Gusto E-Bike at the new plant each year. The goal is to locate at a minimum-cost site, where cost is measured by the annual fixed plus variable costs of production. TOSSEK Manufacturing company has gathered the following data in Table 1 as follows:

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