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Linear programming – the basic ideas
Linear programming – the basic ideas

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Conclusion

Following completion of this free OpenLearn course, Linear programming – the basic ideas, you should find that your skills in finding a solution to a linear programming problem and interpreting the result in terms of the original problem are improving.

You should now be able to:

  • formulate a given simplified description of a suitable real-world problem as a linear programming model in general, standard and canonical forms
  • sketch a graphical representation of a two-dimensional linear programming model given in general, standard or canonical form
  • classify a two-dimensional linear programming model by the type of its solution
  • solve a two-dimensional linear programming problem graphically
  • use the simplex method to solve small linear programming models by hand, given a basic feasible point.

This free OpenLearn course is an extract from the Open University course M373 Optimization [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .

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