To check the feasibility of the plan, let us calculate how quickly the newspaper carrier will have to deliver a newspaper.
Each side of the area will contain 1000m/10m or 100 houses. Therefore, in total, a carrier will have to distribute newspapers to a total of 100*100 or 10,000 houses.
But since a single carrier only has 3 hours or 10,800 (3*60*60) seconds, he will have to distribute one newspaper in 10,000/10,800 seconds.
The plan seems infeasible as delivering a newspaper in less than a second is nearly impossible.
In such a scenario hiring more newspaper carriers should be the best alternative; but since we have budget constraints, we could consider the following:
- Reduce distribution area
- Change distribution method
The case is designed to be presented to the candidate by an interviewer, who plays the role of a person has come up with a plan to establish a door-to-door distribution of an existing online newspaper.
This is a candidate-led case; therefore the candidate should lead the case from start to finish.