Bhalchandra Institute of Education & Management

SECTION-A
All the questions are compulsory. 10*4=40
Q1. Define Operations Research.
Q2. State the applications of Operations Research.
Q3. Define slack and surplus variables.
Q4. Explain Linear Programming.
Q5. Write the types of the transportation problem.
Q6. What is meant by the ‘two-person zero-sum game’?
Q7. Write the properties of payoff matrix.
Q8. What are the differences among decision making under certainty and uncertainty?
Q9. Write a detailed note on Decision Tree Analysis.
Q10. Give the differences between transportation & assignment problem.

SECTION-B
All the questions are compulsory.
Q11. A company produces 2 types of hats. Every hat of type A requires
twice as much labor time than the second type B. If the company produces only hat
B then it can produce a total of 500 hats a day. The market limits daily sales of the
hat A and hat B to 150 and 250 hats. The profits on hat A and B are Rs. 8 and Rs. 5
respectively. Solve graphically to get the optimal solution.
Q12. Using the following cost matrix, determine (a) the optimal job assignment (b) the cost
of assignments

Q13. Vehicles arrive at a toll booth at an average rate of 300 per hour. Average waiting
time at the toll booth is 10 seconds per vehicle. If both arrivals and departures are
exponentially distributed, Calculate:
(i) Traffic intensity
(ii) Average number of vehicles in the system
(iii) Average queue length
(iv) Average delay per vehicle
(v) Average time a vehicle is in the system.
Q14. Find the critical path for the following network