Applied Operations Research Quiz Aug 2023

In a linear programming problem, the restrictions or limitations under which the objective function is to be optimized are called .............

• Constraints

• Objective Function

• Decision Variables

• More than one of the above

Operations Research approach is .......................

• multi-disciplinary

• scientific

• intuitive

• none of the above

A feasible solution to a linear programming problem .................

• 1. must satisfy all the constraints of the problem simultaneously

• 1. need not satisfy all of the constraints, only some of them

• 1. must be a corner point of the feasible region.

• 1. must optimize the value of the objective function

• The scientific method in O.R. study generally involves.......

• • Judgement Phase

• Research Phase

• Action Phase

• All of them

• Which of the following is not a major requirement of a Linear Programming Problem?

• • There must be alternative course of action among which to decide

• • • An objective for the firm must exist

• • • The problem must be of maximization type

• • Resources must be limited

What aims at optimizing inventory levels?

• Inventory Planning

• Inventory Capacity

• Inventory Control

• None of the above

Who coined the term 'Operations Research'

• McCloskey

• FN Trefenthen

• Thomas Hettich

• None of the above

Operations Research, is a very powerful tool for ....................

• Research

• Database

• Operations

• Decision Making

• The variables used in the objective function are called as ......................

• decision variables

• objective function

• constant variables

• constraints variables

Which of the following best represents the objective function subject to the constraints

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