OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT W/MY OM LAB
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Chapter C, Problem 8DQ
Summary Introduction
To determine: Northeast corner rule and the initial solution for Company A
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 typesof linear programming.
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Question 1
(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:
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.
Question 5
The following game is played by 2 players
Adam
Jack
Left
Middle
Right
Up
1,2
3,5
2,1
Middle
0,4
2,1
3,0
Down
-1,1
4,3
0,2
Solve the equilibrium for this game.
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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT W/MY OM LAB
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Ch. C - Prob. 11DQCh. C - Prob. 12DQCh. C - Prob. 13DQCh. C - Prob. 1PCh. C - Question: C.2 Consider the transportation table...Ch. C - Prob. 3PCh. C - Prob. 4PCh. C - Prob. 5PCh. C - Question: C.7 The three blood banks in Seminole...Ch. C - Question: C.8 In Solved Problem C 1 (page 728),...Ch. C - Prob. 8PCh. C - Prob. 9PCh. C - Prob. 10PCh. C - Question: C.12 Dana Johnson Corp. is considering...Ch. C - Prob. 14PCh. C - Question: C.9 For the following Gregory Bier...Ch. C - Prob. 1CS
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