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The situation in which the value of the solution may be made infinitely large in a maximization linear programming problem or infinitely small in a minimization problem without violating any of the constraints is known as
 a. infeasibility.
  b. unbounded.
  c. infiniteness.
  d. semi-optimality.

Question 2

A random sample selected from an infinite population is a sample selected such that each element selected comes from the same ________________ and each element is selected ______________
 a. population; independently.
  b. population; simultaneously.
  c. sample; independently.
 
  d. sample; simultaneously.



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Answer to Question 1

b
RATIONALE: Unbounded refers to the situation in which the value of the solution may be made infinitely large in a maximization linear programming problem or infinitely small in a minimization problem without violating any of the constraints.

Answer to Question 2

a
RATIONALE: A random sample from an infinite population is a sample selected such that each element selected comes from the same population and each element is selected independently.



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