23-Ind-A6 Systems Simulation · December 2018
Nivaar worked solution (AI-drafted; not reviewed by a licensed engineer)
National Exams — December 2018 — 17-Ind-A6 Systems Simulation. Three-hour, closed-book exam; one of two permitted calculators (Sharp or Casio), one 8.5″×11.0″ aid sheet (both sides). Format: three sections — Part A (Input Modelling): do 2 of 3 questions, 30 marks total; Part B (Modelling Concepts): do 1 of 2, 20 marks; Part C (Output Analysis): do 1 of 2, 20 marks — plus a 1-mark trivia bonus. All seven graded questions and the bonus are solved below for completeness. The exam's own front matter has two internal quirks, transcribed as printed: NOTES item "4." appears twice on page 1, and every page footer reads "17-Ind-A6/Dec. 2019" against a "December 2018" masthead.
Reference texts: Banks, Carson, Nelson & Nicol, Discrete-Event System Simulation (5th ed., Pearson) — input data analysis (ch. 9), random-variate generation, output analysis for a single system and comparing alternative systems (ch. 11–12), verification and validation (ch. 10).
Question text not reproduced: the examination questions are © Engineers and Geoscientists BC. Open the official past paper (linked at the top of this page) to read the question, then follow the worked solution below.
Answer. Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) was a British Army officer who became a national hero in Britain for his defence of Mafeking during the Second Boer War (1899–1900), but his lasting claim to fame is founding the worldwide Scouting movement: he ran the first experimental camp for boys on Brownsea Island in 1907 and published Scouting for Boys in 1908, which sparked the rapid growth of Scout troops (and, with his sister Agnes and later his wife Olave, the Girl Guides) across the world — the same Scouts Canada organization this exam's fictional Robert Baden-Powell volunteers with is a direct descendant of that movement.
