QBUS2310: Management Science Assignment 1 Due: Tuesday, 10th September 2024 Total marks:100 1. (a)
(5’) Reformulate the following problem min 2x1 + 3|x2 ? 10| s.t. |x1 + 2|+ |x2| ≤ 5 x1, x2 ∈ R into
a linear optimisation problem (LOP). (b) (5’) If the “minimization” above is changed to
“maximization”, can you refor- mulate the problem into an LOP? Why? 2. (15’) BA Pte Ltd produces
shoes and is opening a new franchise in City. The company needs to hire workers. Assume each worker
can only produce 50 pairs of shoes per quarter, is paid $500 per quarter, and works three
consecutive quarters per year. The demand (in pairs of shoes) is 600 for the first quarter, 300 for
the second quarter, 800 for the third quarter, and 100 for the fourth quarter. Excessive pairs of
shoes may be carried over to the next quarter at a cost of $50 per quarter per pair of shoes, and
there will be no inventory at the end of quarter 4. (a) (10’) Please formulate an LOP to minimize BA
Pte Ltd’s long run average costs. (b) (5’) See the coding part. 3. (20’) Toyz is a discount toy
store in Qbusfield Mall. During the winter and spring, the store must build up its inventory to have
enough stock for the Christmas season. To purchase and build up its stock during the months when the
revenue is low, the store borrows money from a bank. Following is the store’s projected revenue
(revenue of last month) and liabilities (bills of the coming month) schedule for July through
December. For example, $20, 000 for July is the realized revenue from June and $50, 000 is the bill
needed to pay in July. 1 Month Projected Revenues ($) Liabilities ($) July 20,000 50,000 August
30,000 60,000 September 40,000 50,000 October 50,000 60,000 November 80,000 50,000 December 100,000
30,000 At beginning of July, the store can take out a 6-month loan at 12% interest rate and must be
paid back at the beginning of next January. The store can not pay back this loan early. The store
can also borrow monthly loan at a rate of 4% interest per month. The store wants to borrow enough
money to meet its cash flow needs while minimizing its interest cost. (a) (10’) Formulate the LOP
for this problem. (b) (10’) See the coding part. 4. (15’) Consider the following optimization
problem max 500∑ i=1 cixi s.t. 500∑ i=1 xi = 30 0 ≤ xi ≤ 1, i = 1, . . . , 500, for some given
parameters, c1, . . . , c500. (a) (5’) Characterize the extreme points of the problem. (b) (5’) What
is the number of extreme points? Suppose a computer can explore 100 billion extreme points per
second. How long would it take to explore all the extreme points (in number of years)? Compare this
with the age of the universe, which is roughly 13.8 billions years. (c) (5’) How to interpret the
optimal objective value of this problem? What is the optimal solution of this problem? 2 5. (25’)
Consider the following optimization problem: max x1 + x2 + x3 s.t. x1 + 2x2 + 2x3 ≤ 15 2x1 + x2 +
2x3 ≤ 15 2x1 + 2x2 + x3 ≤ 15 x1, x2, x3 ≥ 0. (a) (10’) Write down the dual problem. (b) (10’) Show
that the optimal solution is x1 = x2 = x3 = 3. (c) (5’) What are the shadow prices (dual variables)
associated with the first three constraints? 6. (15’) Consider a two-person zero-sum game with the
following payoff matrix (of the row player) A = ??? 5 0 3 12 4 3 2 3 2 0 4 ??? . (a) (10’) Formulate
the LOPs to find optimal mixed strategies for the row player and the column player, respectively.
(b) (5’) See the coding part. 3
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