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With the transportation technique, the initial solution can be generated in any fashion one chooses. The only restr...

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Who defined OR as scientific method of providing execuitive departments with a quantitative basis for decisions reg...

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Which technique is used in finding a solution for optimizing a given objective, such as profit maximization or cost...

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Which statement characterizes standard form of a linear programming problem?

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Which of the following is used to come up with a solution to the assignment problem?

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Which of the following is not the phase of OR methodology?

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Which of the following is NOT needed to use the transportation model?

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Which of the following is a method for improving an initial solution in a transportation problem?

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When total supply is equal to total demand in a transportation problem, the problem is said to be

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What is the objective function in linear programming problems?

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What is the difference between minimal cost network flows and transportation problems?

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What have been constructed from OR problems an methods for solving the models that are available in many cases?

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What enables us to determine the earliest and latest times for each of the events and activities and thereby helps ...

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The transportation method assumes that

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The smallest quantity is chosen at the corners of the closed path with negative sign to be assigned at unused cell ...

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The purpose of the stepping-stone method is to

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The purpose of a dummy source or dummy destination in a transportation problem is to

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The procedure used to solve assignment problems wherein one reduces the original assignment costs to a table of opp...

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The Operations research technique which helps in minimizing total waiting and service costs is

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The only restriction we place on the initial solution of a transportation problem is that: we must have nonzero qua...

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The occurrence of degeneracy while solving a transportation problem means that

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The objective function for a minimization problem is given by z = 2 x1 - 5 x2 + 3 x3 The hyperplane for the objecti...

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The objective function and constraints are functions of two types of variables, variables and ...

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The net cost of shipping one unit on a route not used in the current transportation problem solution is called the ...

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The method of finding an initial solution based upon opportunity costs is called __________.

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The large negative opportunity cost value in an unused cell in a transportation table is chosen to improve the curr...

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The initial solution of a transportation problem can be obtained by applying any known method. However, the only co...

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The equation Ri + Kj = Cij is used to calculate __________.

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The degeneracy in the transportation problem indicates that

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OR uses models to help the management to determine its __________

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OR techniques help the directing authority in optimum allocation of various limited resources like __________

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OR has a characteristics that it is done by a team of

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OR can evaluate only the effects of __________.

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Optimal solution of an assignment problem can be obtained only if

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Operations research was known as an ability to win a war without really going in to __________

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Operations research is the application of __________ methods to arrive at the optimal Solutions to the problems.

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Operations research is based upon collected information, knowledge and advanced study of various factors impacting ...

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Operations management can be defined as the application of __________ to a problem within a system to yield the opt...

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One disadvantage of using North-West Corner rule to find initial solution to the transportation problem is that

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In operations research, the __________ are prepared for situations.

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In LPP the condition to be satisfied is

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In graphical representation the bounded region is known as __________ region.

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In graphical method the restriction on number of constraint is __________.

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In game theory, the outcome or consequence of a strategy is referred to as the

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In Degenerate solution value of objective function __________.

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In case of an unbalanced problem, shipping cost coefficients of __________ are assigned to each created dummy facto...

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In assignment problem of maximization, the objective is to maximise

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In a transportation problem, when the number of occupied routes is less than the number of rows plus the number of ...

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In a transportation problem, we must make the number of and equal.

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If an opportunity cost value is used for an unused cell to test optimality, it should be

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Identify the type of the feasible region given by the set of inequalities x - y <= 1 , x - y >= 2 where both x and ...

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Hungarian Method is used to solve

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Graphical optimal value for Z can be obtained from

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Feasible solution satisfies __________

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During an iteration while moving from one solution to the next, degeneracy may occur when

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Consider the linear equation 2 x1 + 3 x2 - 4 x3 + 5 x4 = 10 How many basic and non-basic variables are defined by t...

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Consider the given vectors: a(2,0), b(0,2), c(1,1), and d(0,3). Which of the following vectors are linearly indepen...

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Both transportation and assignment problems are members of a category of LP problems called __________.

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An assignment problem can be viewed as a special case of transportation problem in which the capacity from each sou...

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Which of these statements about the stepping-stone method is best?

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An alternative optimal solution to a minimization transportation problem exists whenever opportunity cost correspon...

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A solution can be extracted from a model either by

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or are used to "balance" an assignment or transportation problem.

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__________ occurs when the number of occupied squares is less than the number of rows plus

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______________ is employed in construction and business problems

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An activity is critical if its ______________ float is zero

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Given arrival rate = 15/hr, service rate = 20/hr, the value of traffic intensity is ______________.

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When D=18000, holding cost=Rs.1.20, set-up cost=Rs.400 ,EOQ = ______________

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The area bounded by all the given constraints is called ______________.

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Which of the following is not a part of holding (or carrying) costs?

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A game is said to be fair if ______________.

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Identify the correct statement

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The group replacement policy is suitable for identical low cost items which are likely to ______________.

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Every basic feasible solution of a general assignment problem having a square pay-off matrix of order n should have...

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An unoccupied cell in the transportation method is analogous to a______________.

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If all aij values in the entering variable column of the simplex table are negative, then ______________.

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In a given system of m simultaneous linear equations in n unknowns (m<n) there will be ______________.

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The penalty for not taking correct decision is known as ______________.

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The similarity between assignment problem and transportation problem is ______________.

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A project consists of a number of tasks which are called ______________.

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An activity is represented by a/an ______________.

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If there is no non-negative replacement ratio in a solution which is sought to be improved, then the solution is __...

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If the primal has an unbound objective function value then the dual has ______________.

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All equality constraints can be replaced equivalently by ______________ inequalities

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When the total demand is not equal to supply then it is said to be ______________.

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Solution of a Linear Programming Problem when permitted to be infinitely large is called ______________.

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The dual of the dual is ______________.

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The cost of a surplus variable is ______________.

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Average number of trains spent in the yard is denoted by ______________.

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All of the following are assumptions of the EOQ model except ______________

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In an assignment problem involving 5 workers and 5 jobs, total number of assignments possible are ______________.

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The transportation problem is balanced, if ______________.

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If an activity has zero slack, it implies that______________.

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The calling population is assumed to be infinite when ______________.

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If the procurement cost used in the formula to compute EOQ is half of the actual procurement cost, the EOQ so obtai...

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While solving an assignment problem, an activity is assigned to a resource through a square with zero opportunity c...

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If primal linear programming problem has a finite solution, then dual linear programming problem should ___________...

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In the optimal simplex table, Zj-Cj=0 value indicates ______________.

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Graphical method of linear programming is useful when the number of decision variable are ______________.

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A degenerate solution is one that ______________.

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