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1. A sand and gravel company needs to supply topsoil to 3 construction projects from 3 farms. The farms have different weekly capacities and it costs different amounts to ship from each farm to each project. The manager needs to determine the lowest cost way to meet all project demands. 2. An assignment problem shows the costs for 4 workers to complete 4 jobs. The least cost method is used to find an initial solution. 3. A transportation problem tableau is given with supply and demand amounts and an initial solution found using the least cost method. 4. Another assignment problem lists the costs for 5 workers to complete 5 jobs. The problem is to find the minimum total cost to assign all jobs.

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(Yard) Individual ASSIGNMENT (Qantitative)

1. A sand and gravel company needs to supply topsoil to 3 construction projects from 3 farms. The farms have different weekly capacities and it costs different amounts to ship from each farm to each project. The manager needs to determine the lowest cost way to meet all project demands. 2. An assignment problem shows the costs for 4 workers to complete 4 jobs. The least cost method is used to find an initial solution. 3. A transportation problem tableau is given with supply and demand amounts and an initial solution found using the least cost method. 4. Another assignment problem lists the costs for 5 workers to complete 5 jobs. The problem is to find the minimum total cost to assign all jobs.

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YARDSTICK INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE

QANTITATIVE ANALYSIS FOR MANAGEMENT DECISION


INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMNET
1. Rift Valley Sand and Gravel Pit have contracted to provide topsoil for three residential
housing developments. Topsoil can be supplied from three different “farms” as follows:
Farm Weekly capacity (cubic yards)
A 100
B 200
C 200
Demand for the topsoil generated by the construction projects is:
Project Weekly demand (cubic yards)
1 50
2 150
3 300
The manager of the sand and gravel pit has estimated the cost per cubic yard to ship over
each of the possible routes:
Cost per cubic yard (in Birr)
From Project #1 Project #2Project #3
Farm A 4 2 8
Farm B 5 1 9
Farm C 7 6 3
A. Formulate a balanced transportation problem in a transportation tableau
B. Find minimum transportation cost using Northwest corner, least cost and VAM methods
2. Solve the following Assignment Problem
Job
A B C D
Worker
1 45 40 51 67
2 57 42 63 55
3 49 52 48 64
4 41 45 60 55
3. Obtain the initial solution to above TP using least cost method?
D1 D2 D3 D4 Supply

O1 1 2 3 4 6

O2 4 3 2 0 8

O3 0 2 2 1 10
Demand 4 6 8 6
4. Solve the following assignment problem and obtain the minimum cost at which all the jobs
can be performed.
Job (cost in ’00 Br.)
Worker 1 2 3 4 5
A 25 18 32 20 21
B 34 25 21 12 17
C 20 17 20 32 16
D 20 28 20 16 27

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