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Q1. A company makes two kinds of Cotton shirts. Shirt A is a high quality shirt and Shirt B is of a
lower quality. The respective profit are Rs 200 and Rs 105 per shirt. Each shirt of type A requires as
much time as shirt of type B, and if all shirts were of type B, the company could make 1,000 per day.
The supply of cloth is sufficient for only 800 shirts per day (both A and B combined). Shirt A requires
fancy buttons set and only 400 sets per day are available. There are only 700 buttons set a day
available for shirt B. Formulate this problem as an LPP.
Q3. Determine an initial basic feasible solution to the following transportation problem by using
(a) North West Corner Method
(b) Least Cost Method
(c) Vogel’s Approximation Method
D1 D2 D3 D4 Supply
S1 20 22 17 4 120
S2 24 37 9 7 70
S3 32 37 20 15 50
Demand 60 40 30 110
Q4. A steel company has three open hearth furnaces and four rolling mills. The transportation costs
(Rupees per quintal) for shipping steel from furnaces to rolling mills are given in the following table:
M1 M2 M3 M4 Supply
F1 8 7 5 3 150
F2 5 8 9 8 250
F3 12 6 10 11 600
Demand 300 300 200 200
Find the minimum transportation cost and optimal shipping schedule using MODI method.