1. Which of the following is a correct statement?

a. The legal law ultimately rests on coercion and force, whereas ethics relies on persuasion and social sanctions to enforce moral rules.

b. Inductive reasoning involves reasoning from general principles or definitions.

c. Socrates thought that obtaining knowledge was impossible and thus the search for knowledge was a waste of time and effort.

d. An ethics based on one's conscience or religion is a very scientific form of ethics since appeals to one's conscience or intuition as a moral guide are  objective and impersonal and not subject to rationalization

 

2. Members of a profession generally have mandatory:

a. Legal obligations to the profession and society.

b. Moral obligations based on the Code of Ethics of the profession.

c. Social responsibility obligations required by the profession.

d. All of the above.

 

3. When a constraint line bounding a feasible region has the same slope as an isoprofit line: 

a. there may be more than one optimum solution.

b. the problem involves redundancy.

c. an error has been made in the problem formulation.

d. a condition of infeasibility exists.

e. none of the above.

 

4. Assume that we are using a waiting line model to analyze the number of service technicians required to maintain machines in a factory. Our goal should be to: 

a. maximize productivity of the technicians.

b. minimize the number of machines needing repair.

c. minimize the downtime for individual machines.

d. minimize the percent of idle time of the technicians.

e. minimize the total cost of maintenance plus cost of downtime.

 

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