The penalty is the difference between the ___ costs in each row and column.

The least cost method is more economical than North West Corner Rule, since it starts with the ___________

The given data is a balanced transportation problem

Then total demand
 

The methods of funding feasible solution to a transportation problem ___________

Operation research is an analytical method of ___________

_____determines the highest out come for each alternative.

_____determines the lowest out comes for each alternative.

______ method provides optimum assignment schedule in an assignment problem.

If the number of rows is____tothenumber of columns, then the assignment problem is said to be balanced.

The optimum_______schedule remains, unaltered if we add or subtract a constant from all the elements of the row or which of the cost________matrix.

To assign different jobs to the different machines to minimize the overall cost is ___________

Vogel's approximation method yields an initial basic feasible solution which is very close to the solution.

In least cost method if the minimum cost is not unique then the choice can be made as ___________

The total transportation cost is ___________

A set of non-negative values that satisfies the constants in a transportation problem is a ___________