MATH 1711: WEEK 13

Topics for this week are:

• The Simplex Method
• Applications to Linear Programming

Objectives for this week:

• Use the Simplex Method to minimize a given objective function
• Calculate the transpose of a matrix
• Find the new solution to the linear programming problem that slightly changes one of the initial variables

Text coverage:     Sections 4.3 - 4.4 of Goldstein, Schneider and Siegel.

Online resources:

• Week 13 Formula Sheet
• Week 13 Practice Problems
• Maple Worksheets
  • A Maple worksheet on minimization.  Here, we use the Simplex method to minimize a given objective function with a system of constraints.

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