Birla Institute of Technology & nce, Pilani Work-Integrated Learning P:ogrammaes vivision First Sesiester 2014-2015 Comprehensive Examination (BC-3 Regular) Course No, :MM ZGS15 Course Title : QUANTITATIVE METHODS Nature of Exam : Open Book Weightage 50% Duration :3 Hours Date of Exam. 08/11/2014 (AN) Note: 1. Please follow all the Instructions to Candidates given on the cover page of the answer book. 2. Alparts of a question should be answered consecutively. Each answer should start from a fresh page. 3.__Assumptions made if any, should be stated clearly atthe beginning of your answer. Is the type of beverage ordered with lunch at a restaurant independent of the age of the consumer? A random poll of 309 lunch customers is taken, resulting in the following contingency table of observed values. The manager wants to determine whether the lunch ordered depends on age. 2 ca ot independence Coffee | Soft drink | Other Age 1 Tea (Milk, L. etc.) wr | 21-34 _|_26 95 18 | 139 35-55 41 40 20 | 101 >55 24 | 13 32 | 69 9 148 70 309 ray (a) State the null and alternate hypothesis. ‘Type of Beverage € Age ase andepenclert. Ss af Beverage € Ag i (b) Calculate the sample Chi-square value. 2 3 Duinmy Suj sly From A : aoe 6 * 08 B ae 65 c 90 Demand 30 40 85 20 wesseeees MM ZGSI5 (EC-3 Regular) ‘Second Semester 2014-2015 Page 2 of 2Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani Work-Integrated Learning Programmes Division First Semester 2015-2016 Comprehensive Examination (EC3 Regular) Course No. MM ZGS15 Course Title QUANTITATIVE METHODS Nature of Exam z Weightage No.of Pages = =5 Duration No. of Questions = 5 Date of Exam o7/11/2015 (AN) Note: 1. Please follow all the Jnstructions to Candidates given on the cover page of the answer book. 2. All parts of a question should be answered consecutively. Each answer should start from a fresh page, 3. Assumptions made if any, should be stated clearly atthe beginning of your answer. 1. An appliance dealer, Mr. Ismail Sheikh, wants to purchase a combined total of no more than 200 reftigerators, and dishwashers for inventory. Refrigerators weigh 200 pound each, and dishwashers weigh 100 pounds each. Suppose that the dealer is limited to a total of 18, 000 pounds for these two items. Profit of $45 for each refrigerator and $30 on each dishwasher is projected, Formulate this as a linear programming problem. Determine how many of each should be purchased and sold to make the largest profit using Simplex Method? [5+7=12] Ve A firm wishes to compare four programs for training workers to perform a certain manual task, ‘Twenty new employees are randomly assigned to the training programs, with 5 in each program, At the end of the training period, a test is conducted to see how quickly trainees can perform the task. The number of times the task is performed per minute is recorded for each trainee, with the following results: Program 1:9, 15,17, 11, 15 Program 2: 10, 8,9, 11, 10 Program 3: 12, 13, 12, 14, 13 Program 4: 9, 10, 12, 8, 10 (a) Construct the ANOVA table (b) Using a = .05, determine whether the treatments differ in their effectiveness, [9+3=12) Mr. M. Srinivasan president of ABC Transportation Company has plants in three locations and is currently working on four major construction projects, located at four sites. The shipping cost per ‘truckload of concrete, plant capacities, and project requirements are provided in the accompanying table. Formulate an initial feasible solution to ABC Transportation Company using the Vogel’s ‘Approximation Method (10) ~~] Project A] Project B | Project © | Projeci LD | Plant Capacities Plant] 9 us 12 | _225 Plant2 4 16 2 ___Plant3 19 im Project Re,uirements | 200 225 215 MM ZGSIS (EC-3 Regular) First Semester 2015-2016 Page 1 of 5MM ZGSI5 (EC-3 Regular) First Semester 2015-2016 Page 2 Q.4. A departmental head has three subordinates, and three tasks to be performed. The subordinates differ in efficiency, and the task differs in th [_ Men Tasks _D E F A 18 7 16 B 15 17 is ec 16 8 mu ‘What is the optimal assignment of task to a man, so as to minimize the total man-hours? ic difficulty. His estimate, of the time each (8) \Q:5. An electronic goods company arranged a special training program for one segment of its employees. The company wants to measure the change in the attitude of its employees after the ‘raining, For this purpose, it has used a well designed questionnaire, which consists of 10 questi employees are given in the following table: ‘Employees ‘Scores before taining Scores after training I 24 33 2 27 31 3 28 33 4 23 34 5 19 32 6 29 29 7 23 26 8 21 31 9 22 26 10 25 28 Use a- the training program, Heseeeeey . The company selected a random sample of 10 employees. The score obtained by these ).10 to determine whether there is a significant changes in the attitude of employees after (8) MM ZGSI5 (EC-3 Regular) First Semester 2015-2016 ‘Page 2 of §