Tutorial Sheet 3
Tutorial Sheet 3
Tutorial Sheet 3
1. Convert the problem into standard form and find all Basic solutions and identify Basic feasible solution.
2. Plot the feasible region.
3. Identify relation between BFS and corner points of the feasible region of above LPP.
4. Construct the simplex table corresponding to the corner point (3/2,0) of the feasible region.
5. Using the simplex table obtained in Part-4 above, find optimal Basic feasible solution of LPP.
6. Identify all the simplex tables obtained in Part 5 above on the graph of the feasible region.
7. What happens if a non basic variable with most positive zj - cj enters into the basis for the given the problem.
CB B.V. x1 x2 x3 s1 s2 Sol.
Z 0 0 17/7 6/7 4/7 2
4 x2 0 1 1/7 2/7 -1/7 0
2 x1 1 0 17/7 -1/7 4/7 1
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11. Describe the big M and the two phase methods. Which should be preferred and why? Solve the following problems by both
these methods:
(a) Min z 3x 1 5x 2 , s / t x 1 3x 2 3 , x 1 x 2 2 , x 1 , x 2 0 .
(b) Max z 4x 2 3x 1 , s / t x1 x 2 0 , 2x1 x 2 2 , x 1 , x 2 0 .
(c ) Max z 3x 1 2x 2 , s / t 2x 1 x 2 2 , 3x 1 4x 2 12 , x 1 , x 2 0 .