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In general terms, ____ accounts for about 6% of u.s. gross domestic product.

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Correct Answer: Transportation Management

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The primary advantage for motor carriers is ____.

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Correct Answer: Flexibility

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______ is a problem in which the total number of units demanded is equal to the total number of supply units available.

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Correct Answer: Balanced transportation problem

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______ is a condition that occurs when the solution to a transportation problem has occupied routes (cells) that are less than the (number of origins + the number of destinations – 1).

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Correct Answer: Degeneracy

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______ is a problem in which the total number of supply units available is greater than the demand requirements.

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Correct Answer: Unbalanced transportation problem

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If ______ exists, it is impossible to apply the stepping stone method and it is impossible to trace a closed path for one or more of the unoccupied cells or routes.

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Correct Answer: Degeneracy

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______ is a fictitious supply source created to arrive at a balanced transportation problem.

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Correct Answer: Dummy supply sources

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The objective of this method is to achieve the lowest total cost, making this method more intuitively appealing.

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Correct Answer: Matrix minimum cost

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______ reduces the number of computations and the time required to determine the optimal solution.

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Correct Answer: Matrix minimum cost

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The ______ is a special case of linear programming problems in which the objective is to minimize the total cost of transporting goods from the various supply origins to the different demand destinations.

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Correct Answer: Transportation model

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The ______ method is intended to generate improved solutions for transportation problems.

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Correct Answer: Stepping stone

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In ______ method, an initial feasible solution to the transportation problem is obtained by allocating shipments beginning with the route that has the lowest unit cost of transportation.

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Correct Answer: Matrix least cost

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Two methods that can be used to obtain the initial basic feasible solution are the northwest corner rule and the ______ method.

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Correct Answer: Matrix minimum cost

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A problem in which the total number of supply units available is greater than the demand requirements is known as

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Correct Answer: Unbalanced transportation problem

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the objective Transportation model is to _______ of transporting goods

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Correct Answer: Minimize the total cost

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The term stepping stone refers to the occupied cells in the initial solution of the transportation matrix, which are used in arriving at an improved solution is known as

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Correct Answer: Stepping stone method

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In the North West corner rule if the demand in the column is satisfied one must move to the _________.

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Correct Answer: Right cell in the next column.

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Matrix least cost method is an initial feasible solution to the transportation problem is obtained by allocating shipments

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Correct Answer: True

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A fictitious supply source created to arrive at a balanced transportation problem known as

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Correct Answer: Dummy supply sources

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_______ is a fictitious demand destination created to arrive at a balanced transportation problem

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Correct Answer: Dummy demand destinations

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The total number of different states of the same energy is known as

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Correct Answer: Degeneracy

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A problem in which the total number of units demanded is equal to the total number of supply units available is known as

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Correct Answer: Balanced transportation problem

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