Operations Management
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ISBN: 9780132921145
Author: Jay Heizer
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter C, Problem 5DQ
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To determine: How people can identify if the optimal solution has been reached.
Introduction: The major objective of the transportation problem is to minimize the distributing cost of a product from a source to an origin. Transportation problem is one of the types of linear programming.
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QUESTION 11
The accompanying table shows the demand and supply schedules for lobster. The U.S. government decides that the incomes of lobster farmers should be maintained at a level that
allows them to survive. It therefore implements a price floor of $14 per pound by buying surplus lobster until the market price is $14 per pound.
Quantity Demand
(thousands of pounds)
Quantity Supplied
(thousands of pounds)
Price of Lobster
(per pound)
$22
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Since lobster is an important source of protein and omega-3, the government decides to provide the surplus lobster it purchases to nursing homes at a price of only $12 per pound.
Assume that nursing homes will buy any amount of lobsters available at this low price, but families of nursing home patients now reduce their purchases of lobsters at any price by 60
thousand pounds because their family members are…
Question B1:
Simply Storage is a large storage business operating in several major cities in the UK. It runs the firm as a franchise. The parent company uses a centralised organisational structure. All franchises have to use exactly the same procedures. Each franchise is run by self-employed owners/managers who provide the warehouse space, either by owning it or renting it. The owners of each franchise are also responsible for developing their individual businesses and increasing turnover. The most successful franchise owners have built up very profitable businesses over the years.
Simply Storage does not give any incentives to its warehouse staff. They are paid an hourly rate and there is never any overtime. The opportunities for promotion are very limited as on average a franchise only employs four staff. There is high staff turnover as many staff stay a few months then move on.
a) Explain two ways in which the centralised organisational procedures might affect the way in…
Question 3: Jerry has preferences over cats, c, and hats, h, that can be described
by u(c, h) = min{2c, 2h}. Sketch the following curves (where pertinent, put c on the
horizontal axis and h on the vertical axis):
(1) Jerry's price consumption curve as the price of cats p. changes.
(2) Jerry's demand curve for cats.
(3) Jerry's income consumption curve.
(4) Jerry's Engel curve for cats and Jerry's Engel curve for hats.
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Operations Management
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