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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 ib Paper 3 20D a Solution by
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Continue the simplex algorithm using dictionaries, with nonbasic variables zero at the current vertex. The given basis has payoffThus enters. Its positive row coefficients give ratios for and for ; the row does not restrict this increase. Therefore leaves. After that pivot,Now enters. Only the row decreases along this move, and its ratio is , so leaves. The final dictionary isAll reduced payoff coefficients are nonpositive. Since the slacks must be nonnegative, , attained with . Hence . Direct substitution makes all three original constraints equalities. The final dictionary is the optimal tableau expressed with basic variables on the left, not just a proposed feasible vertex.
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