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Assignment Drive WINTER 2017 Program MBA Semester II Subject Code & Name Mba 205 & Operations Research BK Id B2068 Credits 4 Marks 30

This document contains an assignment for an Operations Research course. It includes 3 sets of questions worth a total of 30 marks. Set 1 includes questions about linear programming, transportation problems, and simulation. Set 2 covers assignment problems, decision making criteria, and replacement models. Students are asked to provide approximately 400 word answers for 10 mark questions. The optimal allocation and transportation costs are required for some questions.

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Assignment Drive WINTER 2017 Program MBA Semester II Subject Code & Name Mba 205 & Operations Research BK Id B2068 Credits 4 Marks 30

This document contains an assignment for an Operations Research course. It includes 3 sets of questions worth a total of 30 marks. Set 1 includes questions about linear programming, transportation problems, and simulation. Set 2 covers assignment problems, decision making criteria, and replacement models. Students are asked to provide approximately 400 word answers for 10 mark questions. The optimal allocation and transportation costs are required for some questions.

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ASSIGNMENT

DRIVE WINTER 2017


PROGRAM MBA
SEMESTER II
SUBJECT CODE & NAME MBA 205 & OPERATIONS RESEARCH
BK ID B2068
CREDITS 4
MARKS 30

Note –The Assignment is divided into 2 sets. You have to answer all questions in both sets.
Average score of both assignments scored by you will be considered as your IA score. Kindly note
that answers for 10 marks questions should be approximately of 400 words.
SET-I
Q.No Questions Marks Total Marks
1 Define the Linear programming problem in operation Research. Also, explain
various assumptions, advantages and limitations of linear programming problem.
A Linear programming problem in operation Research 2.5 10
Assumptions of linear programming problem 2.5
Advantages of linear programming problem 2.5
Limitations of linear programming problem 2.5
2 a. Discuss the concept of unbalanced transportation problem
b. Find the optimum transportation cost in following table
D1 D2 D3 D4 Supply
S1 3 1 7 4 300
S2 2 6 5 9 400
S3 8 3 3 2 500
Demand 250 350 400 200

A Unbalanced transportation problem 4 10


Optimum allocation. 3
Optimum transportation cost 3
3 a. Elaborate the meaning of Simulation.
b. What are different Practical applications of simulation

A Meaning of Simulation. 2 10
Practical applications of simulation 8

SET-II
1 a. Define the meaning of assignment problem in operation Research.
b. A Departmental head has four subordinates and four task to be performed. The
subordinates differ in efficiency and the tasks differ in their intrinsic difficulty. His
estimate of the times each man would take to perform each task is given in the
following matrix-
Tasks Subordinates
I II III IV
A 8 26 17 11
B 13 28 4 26
C 38 19 18 15
D 19 26 24 10
How should the tasks be allocated to subordinates to minimize the total man-hours?
A Description of assignment problem 4 10
Optimum allocation through Hungarian method 6
2 Define following criteria’s used for decision making under Uncertainty
a. Optimism (maximax or minimin) criterion
b. Pessimism (maximin or minimax) criterion
c. Equal probabilities (Laplace) criterion
d. Coefficient of optimism (Hurwicz) criterion
e. Regret (salvage) criterion
A a. Optimism (maximax or minimin) criterion 2 10
b. Pessimism (maximin or minimax) criterion 2
c. Equal probabilities (Laplace) criterion 2
d. Coefficient of optimism (Hurwicz) criterion 2
e. Regret (salvage) criterion 2
3 a. Explain the importance and utility of the replacement model in business
organizations.
b. The maintenance cost and re-sale value per year of a machine whose purchase
price is Rs. 7000 is given below-
Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Maintenance cost (in Rs.) 900 1200 1600 2100 2800 3700 4700 5900
Re- sale value (in Rs.) 4000 2000 1200 600 500 400 400 400
When should the machine be replaced?
A Importance and utility of the replacement model 4 10
Replacement Year 6

*A- Answer

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