Operation ResearchSPPU question papers (PYQ), solutions and notes
Operation Research for Final Year (BE) Mechanical Engineering
Operation Research is a semester 7 subject in Fourth Year Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, at Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU).
Here you’ll find 11 previous question papers (2022–2025).
Every question of 11 papers (Oct 2022 to Nov 2025) is written out on the paper pages below, so you don’t need to open a PDF.
Insem papers are 30 marks (1 hour) and endsem papers are 70 marks (2½ hours). These are 2019-pattern papers.
Operation Research previous year question papers
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Most repeated Operation Research questions
Asked in more than one SPPU paper, out of 11 we have.
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A dentist schedules all his patients for 30-minute appointments. Some of the patients take more 30 minutes some less, depending on the type of dental work to be done. The following summary shows the various categories of work, their probabilities and time actually needed to complete the work. Category of Time Required Probability Service (minutes) of Category Filling 45 0.40 Crown 60 0.15 Cleaning 15 0.15 Extraction 45 0.10 Checkup 15 0.20 Simulate the dentist’s clinic for four hours and determine the average waiting time for the patients as well as the idleness of the doctor. Assume that all the patients show up at the clinic at exactly their scheduled arrival time starting at 8.00 a.m. Use the following random numbers for handling the above problem: 40 82 11 34 25 66 17 79 5
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