Paper: QT

General Instructions:

Code: 441A

The Student should submit this assignment in the handwritten form (not in the typed format) The Student should submit this assignment within the time specified by the exam dept The student should only use the Rule sheet papers for answering the questions. The student should attach this assignment paper with the answered papers.

Failure to comply with the above Four instructions would lead to rejection of assignment.

Specific Instructions:
There are four Questions in this assignment. The student should answer all the four questions. Marks allotted 100. Each Question carries equal marks (25 marks) unless specified explicitly

Question 1 Solve by Simplex Method:Z= 30X1+40X2+35X3 (Maximise) Subject to Constraints 3X1+4X2+2X3 90 2X1+X2+2X3 54 X1+3X2+2X3 93 X1,X2,X3 0
a) Find the Optimum Solution.

b) Perform coefficient sensitivity analysis on variables X1, X2, X3

C) Write the dual to the above problem and read out the values of the dual variable from the final simplex table of the primal. Also prove that dual to the dual is primal

Question 2 a) A player aims a shot at a pile of stones in order to break the pile. He is given 2 shots to aims at the pile of stones. If the accuracy of the aim of the player is such that he will break the pile on 80% of the occasions, determine the probability distribution of the player breaking either 0, or 1 or 2 times if he throws two times. Find the mean and the variance of this binomial distribution.

b)

The metropolitan airport commission is considering the establishment of

limitations on noise pollution around a local airport. At the present time, the noise level per jet takeoff in one locality near the airport is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 100 decibels and a standard deviation of 6 decibels. i) What is the probability that a randomly selected jet will generate a noise level greater than 108 decibels in this locality? ii) iii) What is the probability that a randomly selected jet will generate a noise level of between Between which two noise levels centered around mean do 95% of the jets emit noise. 92 and 110 decibels? iv) Suppose a regulation is passed that requires jet noise in this locality to be lower than 105 decibels 95% of the time. Assuming the standard deviation of the noise distribution remains the same how much will the mean level of noise have to be lowered to comply with the regulation? Further given that Z= P(z) = 0.8 0.2881 1 0.3413 1.2 0.3849 1.33 0.4082 1.65 0.4505 1.67 0.4525 1.96 0.4750 2.33 0.4901 3 0.4987

Question 3 The following table gives the activities in a construction project and other relevant information :ACTIVITIES IMMEDIATE Duration PREDECESSOR (S) A B C D E F G i. ii. 1-2 1-4 1-3 2-4 3-4 2-5 4-5 4 6 2 5 2 7 4

Draw an arrow diagram for the project. Calculate Earliest & Latest start time, Earliest and Latest finish time for each activity.

Calculate all the Total Float, Free Float, Interfering Float and Independent Float for each Activity. Question 4 a) Explain the case of quantitative techniques in business decision making?

b) What is linear programming? What are its major assumptions and limitations?