Homework 6 Questions Quantitative Analysis BA 452

Transportation, from Lesson II.1 Question: Consider Forbelt Corporation has a one-year contract to supply motors for all refrigerators produced by the Ice Age Corporation. Ice Age manufactures the refrigerators at four locations around the country: Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, and St. Paul. Plans call for the following number (in thousands) of refrigerators to be produced at each location: Boston 50 Dallas 70 Los Angeles 60 St. Paul 80 Forbelts three plants are capable of producing the motors. The plants and production capacities (in thousands) are Denver 100 Atlanta 100 Chicago 150 Because of varying production and transportation costs, the profit that Forbelt earns on each lot of 1000 units depends on which plant produced the lot and which destination it was shipped to. The following table gives the accounting department estimates of the profit per unit (shipments will be made in lots of 1000 units): Shipped To Produced At Boston Dallas Los Angeles St. Paul Denver 7 11 8 13 Atlanta 20 17 12 10 Chicago 8 18 13 16 With profit maximization as a criterion, Forbelts management wants to determine how many motors should be produced at each plant and how many motors should be shipped from each plant to each destination. a. Develop a network representation of this problem. b. Use Management Scientist to find the optimal solution. Answer to Question:

Homework 6 Questions Quantitative Analysis BA 452

Assignment, from Lesson II.1 Question: A local television station plans to drop four Friday evening programs at the end of the season. Steve Botuchis, the station manager, developed a list of six potential replacement programs. Estimates of the advertising revenue (in dollars) that can be expected for each of the new programs in the four vacated time slots are as follows. Mr. Botuchis asked you to use Management Scientist to find the assignment of programs to time slots that will maximize total advertising revenue.
Home Improvement World News NASCAR Live Wall Street Today Hollywood Briefings Ramundo & Son 5:00-5:30 P.M. 5000 7500 8500 7000 7000 6000 5:30- 6:00 P.M. 3000 8000 5000 6000 8000 4000 7:00- 7:30 P.M. 6000 7000 6500 6500 3000 4500 8:00- 8:30 P.M. 4000 5500 8000 5000 6000 7000

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Homework 6 Questions Quantitative Analysis BA 452

Assignment, from Lesson II.1 Question: A market research films three clients each requested that the firm conduct a sample survey. Four available statisticians can be assigned to these three projects; however, all four statisticians are busy, and therefore each can handle only one client. The following data show the number of hours required for each statistician to complete each job; the differences in time are based on experience and ability of the statisticians.
Statistician 1 2 3 4 A 150 170 180 160 Client B 210 230 230 240 C 270 220 225 230

a. Formulate and use Management Scientist to solve a linear programming model for this problem. b. Suppose that the time statistician 4 needs to complete the job for client A is increased from 160 to 165 hours. What effect will this change have on the solution? c. Suppose that the time statistician 4 needs to complete the job for client A is decreased to 140 hours. What effect will this change have on the solution? d. Suppose that the time statistician 3 needs to complete the job for client B increases to 250 hours. What effect will this change have on the solution? Answer to Question:

Homework 6 Questions Quantitative Analysis BA 452

Transshipment, from Lesson II.2 Question: Adirondack Paper Mills, Inc., operates paper plants in Augusta, Maine, and Tupper Lake, New York. Warehouse facilities are located in Albany, New York, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Distributors are located in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. The plant capacities and distributor demands for the next month are as follows:
Plant Augusta Tupper Capacity (units) 300 100

Distributor Boston New York Philadelphia

Demand (units) 150 100 150

The unit transportation costs (in dollars) for shipments from the two plants to the two warehouses and from the two warehouses to the three distributors are as follows:

a. Draw the network representation of the Adirondack Paper Mills problem.

Homework 6 Questions Quantitative Analysis BA 452

b. Formulate the Adirondack Paper Mills problem as a linear programming problem. c. Use Management Scientist to solve the linear program to determine the minimum cost shipping schedule for the problem. Answer to Question: