OCR D1 2010 January — Question 4

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleD1 (Decision Mathematics 1)
Year2010
SessionJanuary
TopicCombinations & Selection

4 Jack and Jill are packing food parcels. The boxes for the food parcels can each carry up to 5000 g in weight and can each hold up to \(30000 \mathrm {~cm} ^ { 3 }\) in volume. The number of each item to be packed, their dimensions and weights are given in the table below.
Item type\(A\)\(B\)\(C\)\(D\)
Number to be packed15834
Length (cm)10402010
Width (cm)10305040
Height (cm)10201010
Volume ( \(\mathrm { cm } ^ { 3 }\) )100024000100004000
Weight (g)1000250300400
Jill tries to pack the items by weight using the first-fit decreasing method.
  1. List the 30 items in order of decreasing weight and hence show Jill's packing. Explain why Jill's packing is not possible. Jack tries to pack the items by volume using the first-fit decreasing method.
  2. List the 30 items in order of decreasing volume and hence show Jack's packing. Explain why Jack's packing is not possible.
  3. Give another reason why a packing may not be possible.