MBA SEMESTER 2

MB0048 –Operations Research- 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1137)

Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks)

Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions

1. a. “Operation Techniques is a bunch of mathematical techniques.”Comment.

b. “Operation Research is an aid for the executive in making his decisions based on
scientific methods analysis”. Discuss the above statement in brief.

2. Comment on the following statements:

a. Operation Research advocates a system approach and is concerned with

optimization.

b. Operation Research replaces management by personality.

3. Explain how the profit maximization transportation problem can be converted to an

equivalent cost minimization transportation problem.

4. Write the difference in the simplex solution procedure for a maximization problem
and a minimization problem of linear programming.

5. What do you mean by the two-phase method for solving a given LPP? Why is it
used?

6. Indicate any four shortcomings of taking a simulation approach to solve an O.R.

problem.
 MBA SEMESTER 2

MB0048 –Operations Research- 4 Credits

(Book ID: B1137)

Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks)

Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions

1. Explain how to transform an unbalanced transportation problem into a balanced
transportation problem where the demand of warehouses is satisfied by the supply of
factories.

2. Explain how the profit maximization transportation problem into a balanced

transportation problem where the demand of warehouses is satisfied by the supply of
factories.

3. Illustrate graphically the following special cases of Linear programming problems:

i) Multiple optimal solutions, ii) No feasible solution, iii) Unbounded problem

4. How would you deal with the Assignment problems, where a) the objective
function is to be maximized?

b) Some Assignments are prohibited?

5. “Simulation is an especially valuable tool in a situation where the mathematics

needed to describe a system realistically is too complex to yield analytical solutions”.
Elucidate.

6. Describe Gomory’s method of solving an all-integer programming problem.