The transportation problem is said to be unbalanced if _______.

Solution for transportation problem using ________method is nearer to an optimal solution.

In an assignment problem the value of decision variable x_ij is ______.

If number of sources is not equal to number of destinations, the assignment problem is called______.

The solution for an assignment problem is optimal if _______.

Write mathematical form of transportation problem.

What is feasible solution and non degenerate solution in transportation problem?

What do you mean by balanced transportation problem?

Determine an initial basic feasible solution to the following transportation problem using North West corner rule.

Here O_i and D_j represent i^th origin and j^th destination.

Find the initial basic feasible solution for the following transportation problem by VAM

A business man has three alternatives open to him each of which can be followed by any of the four possible events. The conditional pay offs for each action - event combination are given below:

Determine which alternative should the businessman choose, if he adopts the maximin principle.

Consider the problem of assigning five jobs to five persons. The assignment costs are given as follows. Determine the optimum assignment schedule.

Solve the following assignment problem.