a. Operational Research is the application of scientific method to the study of alternatives in a problem situation, with a view to provide a quantitative basis for arriving at an optimum solution in terms of the goals sought.
1. Acoff
b. Operational Research is a scientific method of providing executive departments with a quantitative basis for decisions under their control.
2. T. Satty
c. Operational Research application of scientific method, techniques and tools to problems involving the operations of systems so as to provide those in control of the operations with optimum solution to the problems.
3. Koontz and O'Donnell
d. Operational Research is the art of giving bad answers to the problems otherwise which has worst answer.
. . . . . . . . is a mathematical technique which is used to determine the optimal allocation of the limited resources, among the competitives activities provided all the relationships between or among the two or more available are linear-
Which one of the following refers to 'attributes or benefits that consumers strongly associate with a brand, positively evaluate and believe they could not find to the same extent with a competitive brand'?