what is transportation problem : The transportation problem is a special type of linear programming problem where the objective consists in minimizing transportation cost of a given item from a number of sources or origins to a number of destinations . Balanced Transportation Problems : where the total supply is equal to the total demand. Unbalanced Transportation Problems : where the total supply is not equal to the total demand. When the supply is higher than the demand, a dummy destination is introduced in the equation to make it equal to the supply (with unit(shipping) costs of 0). When the demand is higher than the supply, a dummy source is introduced in the equation to make it equal to the demand. IBFS (initial basic feasible solution) : This involves Initial solution to the given balanced Transportation Problems. This is known as Initial Basic Feasible Solution (IBFS) . It is required to de...
1 .Transportation problem is a special class of __________. a. LPP. b. assignment problem. c. none of the two. d. both 1 and 2. 2 .The Objective function of Transportation problem is to________. a. maximize the total cost. b. minimize or maximize the total cost. c. minimize the total cost. d. total cost should be zero. 3 . In Transportation problem the preferred method of obtaining either optimal or very close to the optimal solution is _____________. a. north west corner rule. b. least cost method. c. Vogel’s approximation method. d. simplex method . 4 .In Transportation problem the improved solution of the initial basic feasible solution is called ___________. a. basic solution . b. optimal solution. c. degenerate solution. d. non-degenerate solution. 5 .In Transportation problem optimal solution can be verified by using ________....