For a current carrying wire of $$20$$ $$mm$$ diameter and having $$k=0.5W/mK$$ is exposed to air $$\left( {h = 20W/{m^2}K} \right),$$ maximum heat dissiption occurs when thickness of insulation is

In an assembly line for assembling toys, five workers are assigned tasks which take times of $$10, 8, 6, 9$$ and $$10$$ minutes respectively. The balance delay for the line is

If at the optimum in a linear programming problem, a dual variable corresponding to a particular primal constraint is zero, then it means that

A job shop incurs a cost of Rs.$$60$$/- per day for each day a job is in the shop. At the beginning of a month there are five jobs in the shop with the following data:

Which schedule will minimize the total cost?
What is the minimum total cost?
Which jobs (if any) fail to meet their due dates?