Quantitative Techniques: Theory and Problems

PRACTICAL QUESTIONS

1. A job shop has four men available for work on four separate jobs. Only one man can work on any one job. The cost of assigning each man to each job is given in Table 1 below. The objective is to assign men to jobs such that the total cost of assignment is a minimum.

    

   Table 1 Jobs

   

   [Ans. A → 1, B → 4, C → 2, D → 3, or A → 3, B → 1, C → 2 and D → 4, Minimum cost 78].

2. A tourist car rental firm has one car in each of the five depots D₁, D₂, D₃, D₄, D₅ and a customer in each of the five cities, C₁, C₂, C₃, C₄, C₅. The distances in kilometers between the depots and the cities are given in the following matrix. How should the cars ...