Operations Research Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

141. Which technique is used to imitate an operation prior to actual performance ?

1. Simulation
2. Integrated Production Models
3. Inventory Control
4. Game Theory

142. Which theory concerns making sound decisions under conditions of certainity, risk and uncertainty

1. Game Theory
2. Network Analysis
3. Decision Theory
4. None of the above

143. Which variables are fictitious and cannot have any physical meaning ?

1. Optimal variable
2. Decision variable
3. Artificial variable
4. None of the above

144. Who defined Operations Research as an aid for the executive in marketing his decisions by providing him with the quantitative information based on the scientific method of analysis ?

1. C. Kitte
2. H.M. Wagner
3. E.L. Arnoff
4. None of the above

145. Who defined Operations Research as scientific approach to problem solving for executive management ?

1. E.L. Arnoff
2. P.M.S. Blackett
3. H.M. Wagner
4. None of the above

146. Who defined Operations Research as scientific method of providing executive departments with a quantitative basis for decisions regarding the operations under their control?

1. Morse and Kimball (1946)
2. P.M.S. Blackett (1948)
3. E.L. Arnoff and M.J. Netzorg
4. None of the above

147. Who developed Linear Programming for the purpose of scheduling the complicated procurement activities of the United States Air Force?

1. George B. Dantzig
2. James B. Dantzig
3. George B. Dante
4. George V. Dantzig

148. Who invented a method of formal calculations often termed as ?

1. A.V. Kantorovich
2. L.V. Kantorovich
3. T.S. Kantorovich
4. Alfred Marshall

149. Who originally called it Programming of interdependent activities in a linear structure but la shortened it to Linear Programming ?ter

1. Dantzig
2. Kantorovich
3. Marshall
4. None of the above

150. Who pointed out that the businessman always studies his production function and his input prices and substitutes one input for another till his costs become the mnimum possible?

1. Alan Marshall
2. Alfred Marsh
3. Alfred Marshall
4. None of the above