(Answered) : Only need formulation *please explain in depth A new town in Maryland is planning its fire department and decides to open p f

Only need formulation *please explain in depth

A new town in Maryland is planning its fire department and decides to open p fire stations in the State. In terms on planning, the state has been divided into n regions (p << n), each one of them candidate to obtain at most one station. Each station has to answer to any call from its own region and from the others that have been assigned to it. Therefore the decisions to be made are: Locate p fire stations Assign each region to only one station The following information is given: tij response time to region i from