Questions from General Business Management


Q: A fast-food franchise is considering operating a drive-up

A fast-food franchise is considering operating a drive-up window food-service operation. Assume that customer arrivals follow a Poisson probability distribution, with a mean arrival rate of 24 cars...

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Q: Show a separate graph of the constraint lines and feasible solutions for

Show a separate graph of the constraint lines and feasible solutions for each of the following constraints:  

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Q: Patients arrive at a dentist’s office at a mean rate of 2

Patients arrive at a dentist’s office at a mean rate of 2.8 patients per hour. The dentist can treat patients at the mean rate of three patients per hour. A study of patient waiting times show...

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Q: Jobs arrive randomly at a particular assembly plant; assume that the

Jobs arrive randomly at a particular assembly plant; assume that the mean arrival rate is five jobs per hour. Service times (in minutes per job) do not follow the exponential probability distributio...

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Q: Use the single-channel drive-up bank teller operation referred

Use the single-channel drive-up bank teller operation referred to in Problems 1 and 2 to determine the following operating characteristics for the system. a. The probability that no customers are...

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Q: Three decision makers have assessed utilities for the following decision problem (

Three decision makers have assessed utilities for the following decision problem (payoff in euros). The indifference probabilities are as follows. For the payoff of 20, what is the...

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Q: Zondo Industries is considering purchasing an insurance policy for its new office

Zondo Industries is considering purchasing an insurance policy for its new office building in Port Elizabeth. The policy has an annual cost of €10 000. If Zondo Industries does not purchase the...

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Q: An organization is investigating relocating its corporate headquarters to one of three

An organization is investigating relocating its corporate headquarters to one of three possible cities. The following pairwise comparison matrix shows the president’s judgements regarding the...

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Q: Refer to Problem 12. Suppose that the individual had stated the

Refer to Problem 12. Suppose that the individual had stated the following judgements instead of those given in Problem 12. A is strongly more preferable than C. B is equally to moderately more p...

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Q: A committee in charge of promoting a Ladies’ Professional Golf Association tournament

A committee in charge of promoting a Ladies’ Professional Golf Association tournament is trying to determine how best to advertise the event during the two weeks prior to the tournament. The c...

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