OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT W/MY OM LAB
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Chapter C, Problem 4P
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To determine: The total cost using the stepping-stone method.
Introduction: The major objective of the transportation problem is to minimize the distributing cost of a product from a source to an origin. Transportation problem is one of the types of linear programming.
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(b)
A company is considering to invest in eight projects. The estimated cost of each project, the perceived priority points, the estimated number of new jobs each project would create are provided in the Table 1.
Table 1
Project
Cost ($)
Priority Points
New Jobs
X1
X2
X3
X4
X5
X6
X7
X8
5000
4500
600
2000
6000
800
3200
2500
3176
2774
3513
2928
4607
862
3829
2708
5
1
2
1
3
1
7
2
4. The company wants to create at least 8 new jobs from these projects.
5. Only one of the two projects, i.e., X3 and X5 should be funded at this time but not both.
6. The company believes that if it decides to invest in project X7 then it should also invest in project X8, and vice versa.
[DO NOT SOLVE THE ABOVE MODEL YOU DEVELOPED IN QUESTION 1 (b).…
QUESTION 16 International companies' choices of locations for their plants and other operations are influenced by the fact that members of trade groups are increasingly selling more to each other.
True or False
question28
Regarding cultural forces and their impact on standardization of global operations, which of the following is not true?
a.
Factories built in industrialized nations with large markets and high labor costs will typically favor capital-intensive processes.
b.
Factories built in developing countries that lack skilled workers may use specialized machines.
c.
General-purpose machines typically require more skilled operators than do specialized machines.
d.
Specialized machines typically require highly skilled persons to attend to their operation.
Question:
Consider the following linear program:
Max Z = 2*x + 3*y
subject to
3*x + 4*y >= 12
3*x + 2*y >= 9
y>= 1
x,y >= 0
The number of feasible corner points is:
0
1
2
3
None of the other answers are correct.
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