Describe a traveling salesman scenario from your own experience. How can the nearest neighbor heuristic be used to solve it?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary, but the general idea is the student must describe a tour among some number of nodes that required a return to home base. The nearest neighbor heuristic begins at the start node and adds the closest node to the route. From this node, the closest unvisited node is added, and so on, until all nodes have been scheduled. Finally, the starting point traversed from the last node added.
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Discuss and provide examples of why selection of the proper communication medium is so important
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Assume that a company uses direct labor hours as its allocation base for its production departments, A and B. Both departments use 20,000 direct labor hours. Budgeted factory overhead costs are $2,060,000 for Department A and $1,140,000 for Department B. What is the production department factory overhead rate for each department?
a. $57 and $103, respectively, per machine hour b. $80 per machine hour for both departments c. $160 per machine hour for both departments d. $103 and $57, respectively, per machine hour
Pia and Ramona are partners who share income in the ratio of 3:2. Their capital balances are $80,000 and $120,000 respectively. Income Summary has a credit balance of $40,000. What is Pia's capital balance after closing Income Summary to Capital?
A) $60,000 B) $104,000 C) $56,000 D) $64,000
The brand __________________ is sometimes seen as soft measures since they are based on perception and attitude.
a. Promise b. Value c. Equity d. Identity