GATE PI · 2026 · PI
Question 58: Operation Research
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Question 58
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A company must allocate oil produced from their two plants to meet all the demands of two markets. The cost per litre of allocation from plant
to market
is denoted by
. The market demand
, plant production capacity
and
values are given in the table. | Market 1 ( ) | Market 2 ( ) | Capacity in litres |
|---|---|---|---|
Plant 1 ( ) | | | |
Plant 2 ( ) | | | |
Demand in litres | | | |
The company hired an intern to formulate an optimization model to decide on the quantity (
) to be allocated from plant
to market
and the formulation is given below:Minimize
Subject to
The optimal value of the objective function of the linear programming problem formulated by the intern is _____ (in integer).
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GATE PI 2026 · Paper 1
Production and Industrial Engineering · Original paper archive
- Section
- Production and Industrial Engineering
- Question type
- Numerical answer (NAT)
- Marks
- 2 marks
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