ASSIGNMENT 4

1. Solve the following Game

Player B

I II III IV
Player A I 3 2 4 0
II 3 4 2 4
III 4 2 4 0
IV 0 4 0 8

2 Find the value and optimal strategies for the following game:
15 2 -3
6 5 7
-7 4 0

3 By means of an example, explain Two Person Zero Sum game.

4. The Lajwaab Bakery Shop keeps stock of popular brand cake.

Previous experience indicates the daily demand as given below:

Daily demand 10 15 25 35 45 50
Probability 0.01 0.15 0.20 0.50 0.12 0.02
Consider the following sequence of random numbers 21,27,47,54,60,39,43,91,25,20
Using this sequence ,simulate the demand for the next 10 days. Find out of the stock situation, If the
owner of the bakery shop decides to make 30 cakes every day. Also estimate the daily average demand
for the cake on the basis of simulated data.

5 Solve the following 3x5 game using dominance property

Player Y

I II III IV V

Player X I 12 30 60 42 12
II 9 9 12 12 8
III 24 24 48 72 9

6 A confectioner sells confectionary items. Past Data of demand per week in hundred kilograms
with frequency is give below :

Demand per week 0 10 20 30 40 50

Frequency 4 22 16 42 10 6
Use the following sequence of random numbers, generate the demand for the next 10 weeks. Also
Find out the average demand per week
Random Numbers: .70,104,180,26,46,146,68,114,70,166,188,112,134,120
7 Find the optimal strategies for A and B in the following game.
Also obtain the value of the game.
B’s Strategy
B1 B2 B3
A’s Stratergy A1 9 8 -7
A2 3 -6 4
A3 6 7 -7

8 An automobile production line turns out about 100 cars a day, but deviations occur
Owing to many causes. The production is more accurately described by a probability
Distribution as given below:

Production (per day): 95 96 97 98 99 101 102 102 103 104 105

Probability : 0.03 0.05 0.07 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.15 0.10 0.07 0.05 0.03

Finished cars are transported across the bay at the end of each day be ferry has space
Only for 101 cars, what will be the average number of cars waiting to be shipped?

9 Find the optimal solution for the following game using graphical method:

Player B
I II III IV V

I 4 2 5 -6 6
Player A
II 7 -9 7 4 8

10 Explain with illustrations, how Monte-Carlos method is useful in Operations Research