Nivaar worked solution (AI-drafted; not reviewed by a licensed engineer)
National Exams — December 2016 — 98-Ind-A1 Operations Research. Three-hour, open-book exam (any non-communicating calculator permitted); the paper totals 160 marks across 8 questions (each worth 20) and only 100 marks are required, so a candidate would normally answer 5 — all eight are solved below for completeness.
Reference texts: Hillier & Lieberman, Introduction to Operations Research (11th ed., McGraw-Hill) — linear programming and the simplex method & sensitivity analysis (ch. 3–4/6), network optimization & PERT/CPM (ch. 9–10), integer programming (ch. 12), Markov chains (ch. 16), decision analysis (ch. 15). Nahmias, Production and Operations Analysis — the single-period (newsvendor) inventory model.
