Examlex

Solved

A Group of Professors Struggles to Craft a Set of Assessment

question 17

Essay

A group of professors struggles to craft a set of assessment questions for their operations management intro class. They want to cover four topic areas with at least four questions each and have no more than twenty questions total for the assessment. What would a set of constraints look like if they chose an optimization approach to the assessment?


Definitions:

Pounds

A unit of weight commonly used in the United States, equivalent to 0.453592 kilograms.

Kg

Abbreviation for kilogram, a unit of mass equal to one thousand grams.

Dimensional-Analysis

A method in mathematics and physics to check the correctness of an equation by analyzing the dimensions (units) of the quantities involved.

Conversion Factors

Multipliers used to convert a quantity expressed in one set of units to an equivalent expressed in another.

Related Questions