Chapter 17 CD – Goal Programming
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True / False Questions
1. Goal programming provides a way to identify the most important goal and achieve it.
2. Goal programming provides a way of striving toward several objectives simultaneously.
3. Penalty weights for goal programming are best measured in monetary terms.
4. The overall objective for a goal programming problem is to minimize the weighted sum of
deviations of the objective functions from their respective goals.
5. Goal programming problems cannot be easily reformulated as linear programming
problems and, therefore, require a special algorithm to solve.
6. In preemptive goal programming, penalty weights are assigned to measure the relative
seriousness of missing the respective goals.
Chapter 17 CD – Goal Programming
7. Weighted goal programming provides a way of striving toward several objectives
simultaneously.
8. Preemptive goal programming strives to achieve all of the goals simultaneously.
9. In preemptive goal programming, the goals are ranked from most important to least
important.
10. In preemptive goal programming, the target cell is the weighted sum of the deviations
from the goals.
11. In weighted goal programming, the target cell is the weighted sum of the deviations from
the goals.
12. A goal programming formulation includes changing cells to measure the amount over and
under each goal.
13. In goal programming, constraints are used to assure that every goal is met.
