Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2005/ib/paper-3/20d/a/solution

Continue the simplex algorithm using dictionaries, with nonbasic variables zero at the current vertex. The given basis has payoff
Thus 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 is
All 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.

New to topics? Read the docs here!