Question

In devising a route to get water from a local lake to its central water storage tank, the city of Rocky Mount considered the various routes and capacities that might be taken between the lake and the storage tank. The city council members want to use a network model to determine if the city's pipe system has enough capacity to handle the demand.
1. They should use ____________.
A. Minimal Spanning Tree Method
B. Shortest Path Method
C. Maximal Flow Method
D. Any of the above will do

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Maximal Flow Method

Explanation:

When it comes to optimization theory, Maximal Flow Method or problems have to do with finding a possible or viable flow through a flow network that obtains the maximum potential flow rate. The maximum flow problem can be viewed as an exceptional case of more complex and complicated network flow problems, such as that of the circulation problem.