MATH 1711: WEEK 12

Topics for this week are:

• The Simplex Tableau
• The Simplex Method

Objectives for this week:

• Write a system of inequalities as a system of linear equations with slack variables
• Form the Simplex Tableau for a given linear programming problem
• Use the Simplex Method to maximize a given objective function

Text coverage:     Sections 4.1 - 4.2 of Goldstein, Schneider and Siegel.

Online resources:

• Week 12 Formula Sheet
• Week 12 Practice Problems
• Maple Worksheets
  • A Maple worksheet on the Simplex method.  This worksheet explains how to use Maple to pivot the Simplex tableau in order to obtain a final tableau for maximization problems.

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