MITWPU’S Faculty of Management

MITSOM-PG
MCA Programme, Batch 2019-22
(Academic Year 2020-21)
TRIMESTER-III
MCA 521
Optimization Techniques
ASSIGNMENT

1. Customers arrive at a sales counter manned by a single person according to a Poisson process
with a mean rate of 18 per hour. The time required to serve a customer has an exponential
distribution with a mean of 150 seconds. Find the average waiting time of a customer.
Find:
i) The probability that there will be no customers in the system.
ii) The average number of customers in the queue, waiting for the salesman.
iii) The probability that there will be 4 customers in the system.

2. A Xerox machine in an office is operated by a person who does other jobs also.
The average service time for a job is 6 minutes per customer. On an average every 12
minutes one customer arrives for Xeroxing. Find:
i) Xerox machine utilization.
ii) Percentage of times that arrival has not to wait.
iii) Average time spent by customer.
iv) Average queue length.
v) The arrival rate, if the management is willing to deploy the person exclusively for
Xeroxing when the average time spent by a customer exceeds 15 minutes.

3. The following Pay-off Matrix represents the likely Profits (Rs. Millions) from launch of three
models of a new product in favorable, moderate and unfavorable market conditions.

Market Conditions
Model Favourabl
Moderate Unfavourable
e
A 30 25 -10
B 50 20 10
C 40 20 -5

As an exporter, what would be your decision under:

i) Maximax Criterion
ii) Maximin Criterion
iii) Laplace Criterion
4. Following data represents payoff table for three states of nature and three strategies.

Strategies
S1 S2 S3

State of Nature
P1 750 360 420
P2 320 450 360

P3 550 300 430

Find the decision using each of the decision principle.

i) Minimax Regret Principle
ii) Maximax Principle

Sr. No Name of Students Roll No’s  Marks 

1 Preetam Kshirsagar 19MCA028

Date of Submission: 24 March 2020 

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Submitted to: Mr. Sridhar G.

 
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