K.S.

School of Engineering & Management, Bengaluru

Assignment Questions
Department: Management Studies Semester: I
Subject: BA Sub Code: 16MBA14
Question
1.Define Transportation, Basic feasible solution, Degeneracy, Dummy activity

2.Determine the initial feasible solution to the following transportation problem by

NWCR, LCM method & interpret which is cost effective
D1 D2 D3 D4 Supply
Factory- 6 4 1 5 14
1
F-2 8 9 2 7 16
F-3 4 3 6 2 5
Demand 6 10 15 4 35

3.Calculate the total Project duration, Critical path, Total Float.

Jobs 1-2 1-3 2-4 3-4 3-5 4-5 4-6 5-6
Days 6 5 10 3 4 6 2 9
4. Differentiate b/w CPM & PERT method?

5.Calculate the expected time (Te) from the following table of 3time estimate. Find the
probability of project completion in 40 days.
Job 1-2 1-6 2-3 2-4 3-5 4-5 6-7 5-8 7-8
To 1 2 2 2 7 5 5 3 8
Tm 7 5 14 5 10 5 8 3 17
Tp 13 14 26 8 19 17 29 9 32

6. Calculate the following transportation problem to maximise the profit

D-1 D-2 D-3 D-4 Supply
F1 15 51 42 33 23
F2 80 42 26 81 44
F3 90 40 66 60 33
Demand 23 31 16 30

7.Define Optimistic, Pessimistic, Most likely time

8.Calculate the initial solution to following TP using VAM
D1 D2 D3 D4 Supply
F1 3 3 4 1 100
F2 4 2 4 2 125
F3 1 5 3 2 75
120 80 75 25 300

9.Calculate the total Project duration, Critical path & Total Float
Jobs 1-2 1-3 2-4 3-4 3-5 4-5 4-6 5-6
Time 6 5 10 3 4 6 2 9

10 Define critical path, project, project crashing

11 Calculate the optimum duration & cost for project activities.
Activity Time Cost estimates(000s)
estimate(weeks)
Normal Crash Normal Crash
1-2 2 1 10 15
1-3 8 5 15 21
2-4 4 3 20 24
3-4 1 1 7 7
3-5 2 1 8 15
4-6 5 3 10 16
5-6 6 2 12 36

12.Calculate the initial solution to the TP using NWCR,VAM

Supply
F1 1 2 3 4 6
F2 4 3 2 0 8
F3 0 2 2 1 10
Demand 4 6 8 6

13. A company has 3 plants A,B,C ,3 warehouse X,Y,Z. The number of units
available at the plants is 60,70,80 & the demand at X,Y,Z is 50,80,80 . The unit
cost of transportation is given below by Matrix minima and VAM .

A 1 2 3
B 4 3 2
C 0 2 2

14. Calculate the expected time (Te) from the following table of 3time estimate. Find
the probability of project completion in 25 days.
Job 1-2 1-3 1-4 2-5 3-5 4-6 5-6
To 5 1 2 3 1 2 1
Tm 6 1 4 6 1 2 4
Tp 7 7 12 15 1 8 7

15. What are the advantages & limitation of CPM & PERT