TEST BANK for Operations and Supply Chain Management 10th Edition by Roberta S. Russell and Bernard

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Russell & Taylor / Operations & Supply Chain Management, 10th edition

Test Bank

Supplement 1: Operational Decision-Making Tools: Decision Analysis

True/False

1. In a decision-making situation, the events that may occur in the future are known as a. payoffs. b. states of nature. c. decisions. d. decision tree. Ans: a, LO: 1, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, AACSB: None

2. When probabilities are assigned to states of nature the situation is referred to as a. decision-making under conditions of safety. b. decision-making under conditions of certainty. c. decision-making under conditions of risk. d. decision-making under uncertainty. Ans: c, LO: 1, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, AACSB: None

3. The outcome of a decision is referred to as a. a payoff. b. an event. c. a payoff table. d. state of nature. Ans: a, LO: 1, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, AACSB: None

4. The most widely used decision-making criterion for situations with risk is a. maximin. b. expected value. c. payoffs. d. Laplace. Ans: b, LO: 1, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, AACSB: None

5. A decision criterion in which the decision payoffs are weighted by a coefficient of optimism is known as the a. Hurwicz criterion. b. Laplace criterion. c. Maximax criterion. d. Maximin criterion. Ans: a, LO: 1, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, AACSB: None

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