✅ MCQ QUESTIONS - 01: Answers

 Here are the answers to the 50 MCQs related to the Assignment Problem in Management Science:

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✅ Answers

1. B) Transportation Problem

2. B) Minimize total cost or time

3. B) Solve assignment problems

4. C) Exactly one task

5. B) Add dummy rows or columns

6. B) Create a square matrix

7. C) Row reduction

8. A) Subtracting the smallest value from each row

9. B) After row reduction

10. C) Cover all tasks and agents

11. C) 24

12. B) No cost

13. B) Subtracting values from maximum

14. B) Job allocation

15. C) Tasks can be split

16. D) All of the above

17. B) Optimal solution

18. A) One task per agent

19. A) Degeneracy

20. B) Self-assignment costs

21. A) Linear equalities

22. D) All of the above

23. A) Equal number of jobs and agents

24. D) Both A and B

25. A) Adding dummy row/column

26. B) Linear programming

27. B) Binary

28. A) Assignment method

29. C) At least one feasible solution

30. D) Covering all zeros with lines

31. C) Infinite

32. C) All constraints

33. B) Multiple-task assignment

34. A) Equal rows and columns

35. C) Valid cost

36. B) Assignment problem uses binary variables

37. B) More than one solution

38. D) All of the above

39. B) Subtracting from highest value

40. C) Equal to size of matrix

41. D) Reducing uncovered elements

42. C) 0

43. B) Subtract minimum uncovered value

44. A) Cost matrix

45. C) Assignment problem maximizes cost

46. C) North-West corner

47. D) All of the above

48. B) Efficient allocation

49. B) Minimum

50. C) Making optimal assignments