A regional food-bank network is choosing which of its candidate distribution hubs to activate for a new fresh-produce program. The produce is perishable, so a hub can be activated for the program only if it clears all three of the following requirements; a hub that misses any one is not activated, no matter how strong it is on the others.
Cold storage: the hub must have at least 2,000 cubic feet of refrigerated storage. Volunteer coverage: the hub must field at least 30 regular volunteers. Access: the hub must be within 8 miles of the network's central depot, so produce arrives same-day.
Requirements are checked in the order listed; the network screens cold storage first, then volunteers, then access, and stops checking a hub as soon as it fails a requirement.
| hub | refrigerated storage (cubic feet) | regular volunteers | miles from depot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlow | 3,200 | 42 | 6 |
| Ingleside | 1,800 | 55 | 4 |
| Jessup | 2,500 | 22 | 5 |
| Kestrel | 2,100 | 36 | 11 |
| Larkfield | 4,000 | 48 | 7 |
| Marwick | 2,000 | 30 | 8 |
Program intake, capacity note. Each activated hub can move 1,500 pounds of produce per day. The program's supplier delivers 5,000 pounds per day total, split only among activated hubs.
Footnote: If activated hubs' combined daily capacity is below the 5,000-pound delivery, the surplus is redirected to partner pantries outside the program and is not counted as distributed by the program.
The network screens hubs in the order cold storage, then volunteers, then access, stopping at the first requirement a hub fails. For each of the following statements, select Checked if the network actually evaluates the named requirement for the named hub before stopping; otherwise select Not checked.
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