Quantitative Analysis for Management, 13/e

Discussion Questions and Problems

Discussion Questions

1. 9-1 Is the transportation model an example of decision making under certainty or decision making under uncertainty? Why?

2. 9-2 Explain how to determine the number of variables and constraints in a transportation problem when only the number of sources and the number of destinations are known.

3. 9-3 Explain what it means for an assignment model to be balanced.

4. 9-4 Explain the purpose of the transshipment constraints in the linear program for a transshipment model.

5. 9-5 Describe a problem that can be solved by using the shortest-route model.

6. 9-6 Explain how the maximal-flow model might be viewed as a transshipment model.

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