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Simulation Models for Business Scenarios

The document presents 5 simulation problems. Problem 1 involves simulating the daily demand for newspapers to determine the average earnings of a vendor. Problem 2 simulates hotel room reservations to estimate room usage and the nights with more than 100 guests. Problem 3 simulates appointments for a medical specialist to estimate the average duration of their workday. Problem 4 simulates the use of a copier in the library to estimate the average waiting times. And the Pro

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Simulation Models for Business Scenarios

The document presents 5 simulation problems. Problem 1 involves simulating the daily demand for newspapers to determine the average earnings of a vendor. Problem 2 simulates hotel room reservations to estimate room usage and the nights with more than 100 guests. Problem 3 simulates appointments for a medical specialist to estimate the average duration of their workday. Problem 4 simulates the use of a copier in the library to estimate the average waiting times. And the Pro

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PROBLEMS FOR THE MIDTERM

John Zamora Córdova


PROBLEM1
A newspaper vendor tries to maximize his profits. The number of
the number of newspapers sold each day is a random variable. However, the
analysis of last month's data shows in the following table the
daily demand distribution. A newspaper costs $0.20.
dollar to the seller. He sells it for $0.30 per dollar.
The newspapers that are not sold are returned to the publisher and received10 ctv's.
dollar for each one. For all unsatisfied demand, a cost is estimated
10 cents of dollar in clientele and lost profit. If the policy is to ask
an amount equal to the demand of the previous day, determine the profit
average daily sales of the seller through the simulation of this system.
The day zero demand is 22 newspapers.
PROBLEM 2
The airport hotel has 100 rooms. On a given night, it
receive up to 105 reservations due to the possibility that not
everyone presents themselves. The records indicate that the number of
daily reservations are evenly distributed over the interval of
integers [96,105]. That is, each number in this interval has a
probability equal to 0.1 of occurring.
Those who do not arrive are represented by the corresponding table.
Develop a simulation model to determine the following measures
of performance.
The expected number of rooms used per night and the percentages
on nights when there are clients for more than 100 rooms.
PROBLEM 3
A heart specialist schedules 16 patients per day, each for 30 minutes.
min. starting at 9 am. Patients are expected to arrive for their appointment at
the scheduled hours. However, experience shows that 10% and
25% arrive 15 and 5 minutes early respectively, 50% arrive exactly at
the hour, 10% and 5% arrive 10 and 15 minutes late respectively.
The time the specialist spends with a patient varies, depending on
his problem. The analysis of the data shows that the duration of the appointment
it is in the following table.
Obtain a simulation model to determine the average length of
the doctor's journey.
PROBLEM 4
The university library has a copier for use by the
students. They arrive at the machine with the distribution of times between
arrivals (in tables). The time it takes to make a copy has
uniform distribution between 10 and 14 seconds. Including the endpoints. An
Analysis of the accumulated data shows that the number of copies is
distributed according to the fig.
The librarian believes that with the current system, the line at the machine
the copier is too big and the time a student spends in
the system (waiting time + service time) is too much.
Build a simulation model to estimate the average duration of
the waiting times.
PROBLEM5
A seller at a large bicycle store receives a bonus if he sells
more than 4 bicycles in a day, sells bicycles of only one type per sale. The
the probability of selling more than 4 bicycles in a day is 40% and the
The distribution is shown in the following table. The store has 4 models.
the value of the bond varies depending on the type of bicycle.
The additional bicycle bonuses of 4 units are $10 for type A and
sold with a 40% probability for B pays $15 and is 35% for
The bonus is $20 and these constitute 20% of sales and for
Finally, model D costs $20 but only accounts for 5%.
Develop a simulation model to calculate the bonus that can be received.
any seller on any day.

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