65. Fitness Centre Management.

A well-known institute of management in western Inida (WIMWI) has been running a gym with four
identical tread-mills (TM1,TM2,TM3, and TM4) for the last one year(on all days, 6AM to 6 PM). A
treadmill is an exercise machine that has a moving surface that you can walk or run on while remaining in
the same place. With the intention of analyzing the usage pattern of these machines and reviewing their
method of operation, the CAO had data collected on each user on a typical day on the following dimensions:
the code of the member (UserCode), the code of the tread-mill used by the user (MillCode), the time at
which the user started on the mill(StartTime), the time at which the user finished on the mill (EndTime),
and the distance for which the user walked or ran on the machince (Distance) in Kilo-meters. This data was
entered in the range B5:F25 of a spreadsheet as shown below. All the time data is shown in HH:MM
AM/PM format.

A B C D E F G H
1
2 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
3
4
Duration Speed
5
MillCode MemberCode StartTime EndTime Distance(KM) (min) (Km/hr)
6 TM1 ABC 6:25 AM 6:50 AM 3 25.00 7.20
7 TM1 DEF 7:05 AM 7:15 AM 1 10.00 6.00
8 TM1 XYZ 8:00 AM 8:40 AM 3.25 40.00 4.88
9 TM1 PPP 11:55 AM 12:30 PM 4 35.00 6.86
10 TM1 BBB 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 4.2 30.00 8.40
11 TM1 AAA 4:15 PM 4:30 PM 1.5 15.00 6.00
12 TM2 CCC 7:30 AM 8:02 AM 4 32.00 7.50
13 TM2 DDD 9:32 AM 10:04 AM 5 32.00 9.37
14 TM2 MMM 10:25 AM 11:01 AM 4.8 36.00 8.00
15 TM2 NNN 11:48 AM 12:43 PM 7 55.00 7.64
16 TM2 ACC 5:38 PM 5:51 PM 1.8 13.00 8.31
17 TM3 CCD 7:35 AM 8:02 AM 3.5 27.00 7.78
18 TM3 BBC 9:32 AM 10:06 AM 5 34.00 8.82
19 TM3 CDE 10:27 AM 11:01 AM 5.6 34.00 9.88
20 TM3 GGF 11:40 AM 12:43 PM 7 63.00 6.67
21 TM4 FFH 7:40 AM 8:02 AM 2.5 22.00 6.82
22 TM4 HHF 9:32 AM 10:04 AM 4 32.00 7.50
23 TM4 TTF 10:25 AM 11:01 AM 3.8 36.00 6.33
24 TM4 TTR 11:48 AM 12:43 PM 6 55.00 6.55
25 TM4 VVT 5:38 PM 5:51 PM 1.1 13.00 5.08

I. For each of the above data records, the duration of usage in minutes and the average speed in Km/hour
are computed in the corresponding cells of columns G and H.

I.1. What is the formula in G6, if it is copied to the other relevant cells in the same column?

Answer: (HOUR(E6)*60+MINUTE(E6))-(HOUR(D6)*60+MINUTE(D6))

I.2. What is the formula H6, if it is copied to the other relevant cells in the same column?

Answer: F6*60/G6
II. In M10:Q13, the following are tabulated as shown in the following figure,from the data of part-I:
MillCode, Total duration of usage in minutes (TdurnMin), total duration of usage in hours (TdurnHrs),
Percentage utilization (Utlzn) assuming that each machine is available for usage for a total of eleven hours,
and the average speed at which the machine was run in its usage (AvgSpd) in Km/hour, ignoring the periods
during which it was not used. For this purpose, the data table feature was used, in conjunction with the
criterion range M5:M6 (not shown in the following figure). Further, in the row following the data table
(that is row number 14)the same statistics as above are obtained for all machines considered together.

M N O P Q
8 MillCode TDurnMin TDurnHrs Utlzn AvgSpd
9 155 2.58 23.48 6.56
10 TM1 155 2.58 23.48 6.56
11 TM2 168 2.80 25.45 8.07
12 TM3 158 2.63 23.94 8.01
13 TM4 158 2.63 23.94 6.61
14 Overall 639 10.65 24.2 7.33

Fill in the contents of the two cells of the criterion range and the formulae in the data table area as asked
below:

Cell
Entry in the cell
Address
MillCode
M5

O6; SUMIF(B6:H25,VLOOKUP($M$6,B6:H25,1),G6:G25)
N9

P6; O6/60
O9

Q6; P6*100/11
P9

R6; (SUMIF(B6:H25,VLOOKUP(M6,B6:H25,1),F6:F25))/P6
Q9

SUM(N10:N13)
N14

O14*100/(4*11)
P14

SUM(F6:F25)/O14
Q14

III. CAO is not satisfied with the current way the one hour maintenance slot is allocated everyday for the
machines. He would like to choose the slot which is least used by the regular users. The slot should be one
of the twelve from among the following: 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM, 7:00AM to 8:00 AM, 8:00 AM to 9:00
AM,…, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM. For the data currently collected he would like to find which of the above
twelve slots has least usage in terms of duration of use falling within the slot, considering all machines
together (the total usage can even be more than one hour because we are considering the sum of duration
of each machine within the concerned interval). For this purpose, additional values are computed in I6:J25
( see the figure below). In D2:E2, not shown in the figure, the starting and ending times of an one-hour
maintenance-interval in question are obtained. In column I, for each record of the original data collected (
see part-I), whether the user’s usage-interval falls within the interval of D2:E2 is found through a
TRUE/FALSE answer. If the answer is TRUE, the duration of overlap is found in the corresponding cells
of J; if there is no overlap, the duration of overlap is zero. The total of all overlap values is found in J26.
The starting value of each of the twelve possible maintenance intervals are entered in D32:D43. The total
overlap values for each of the twelve intervals are obtained in E32:E43, using the data table feature, and
using D2 as the column input cell. The minimum of these tabulated values is found in E45. Finally, the
starting and ending values of the interval which gave rise to the above minimum are obtained in G31:H31.
In case of multiple minima, the first one is taken.
I J
5 Overlap? ExtentofOverlap
6 FALSE 0.00
7 FALSE 0.00
8 FALSE 0.00
9 TRUE 5.00
10 FALSE 0.00
11 FALSE 0.00
12 FALSE 0.00
13 FALSE 0.00
14 TRUE 1.00
15 TRUE 12.00
16 FALSE 0.00
17 FALSE 0.00
18 FALSE 0.00
19 TRUE 1.00
20 TRUE 20.00
21 FALSE 0.00
22 FALSE 0.00
23 TRUE 1.00
24 TRUE 12.00
25 FALSE 0.00
26 52.00

D E F G H
30 MntintvlS Totverlp MaintS MaintE
31 52.00 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
32 6:00 AM 25
33 7:00 AM 85
34 8:00 AM 46
35 9:00 AM 84
36 10:00 AM 117
37 11:00 AM 52
38 12:00 PM 159
39 1:00 PM 30
40 2:00 PM 0
41 3:00 PM 0
42 4:00 PM 15
43 5:00 PM 26
 44
45 0

What are the formulae in the cells indicated below?

Cell Entry in the cell

E2

I6 (Copied to other
relevant cells in the
column)
J6 (Copied to other
relevant cells of the
column)

E31

E45

G31

H31

IV. The CAO wants to charge the users based on their actual usage in minutes (recording actual usage is
possible). For this the charge in Rs/minute should be chosen such that the total charge will break even with
the maintenance and electricity charges. The maintenance per year ( an year is assumed to be 365 days) per
mill is Rs 20,000, and each mill consumes 3units of electricity per one hour of usage; and the electricity
charge can be assumed to be Rs 6 per unit. If the data collected on the day in question can be assumed to
be truly representative, and if the gym operates on each day of the year, what is the formula to compute the
charge in Rs per minute ( the corresponding formula can be entered in any empty cell)

Answer:_____________________________________________________________________

V. In M18:O21 are found for each mill the total number of users who began before the noon (ie at or before
12:00 PM), and the total number who began in the afternoon
( ie after 12:00 PM), as shown below.

M N O
16 MillCode NoinAM NoinPM
17 4 2
18 TM1 4 2
19 TM2 4 1
20 TM3 4 0
21 TM4 4 1
For this purpose, the data table feature is used in conjunction with two criteria ranges, the first one being
N5:N6, and the second one being O5:O6, with the column input cell specified as M6. Fill the formulae in
the cells given below:

Cell Entry in the cell

N5

N6

O5

O6

N17

O17