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Simplex Method - The Quick Guide

The document provides a quick guide to solving linear programming problems using the simplex method. It describes the 7 steps of the simplex method: 1) setting up the simplex matrix, 2) checking for an optimal solution, 3) choosing an entering variable, 4) selecting a pivot element, 5) performing row operations, 6) replacing the leaving variable, and 7) checking for optimality and repeating if necessary. The simplex method uses elementary row operations to systematically transform a linear programming problem into its optimal form.

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Simplex Method - The Quick Guide

The document provides a quick guide to solving linear programming problems using the simplex method. It describes the 7 steps of the simplex method: 1) setting up the simplex matrix, 2) checking for an optimal solution, 3) choosing an entering variable, 4) selecting a pivot element, 5) performing row operations, 6) replacing the leaving variable, and 7) checking for optimality and repeating if necessary. The simplex method uses elementary row operations to systematically transform a linear programming problem into its optimal form.

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SIMPLEX METHOD THE QUICK GUIDE

The problem is maximizing the next function:

With the following restrictions

Where

they are not negative

1. Simplex matrix method is developed.

Indicators
There are four dummy variables for each constraint:
2. If all indicators are positive bottom line, then Z has a
maximum when
, the maximum is
zero.
If there are negative values, the column where the most
negative value should be located appears. This column
indicates the entering variable.

3. Divide each of the elements of the column you are above the
dotted line between the corresponding elements of the
entering variable column. This division should be performed
only in cases where the element, of the entering variable, is
positive.
4. Circle only one element of the incoming column variable
corresponding to the lower ratio of step 3. This is the pivot
element. The outbound variable is located on the left side of
the line of the pivot element.
5. Use elementary row operations to transform the table into
another equivalent table that has a 1 in where the pivot
element and zero in the other positions of that column.
6. The entering variable should replace the leaving variable on
the left side of this new table.
7. If all indicators of the new table are not negative, already it
has an optimal solution. The maximum value of Z is the
element of the last row and last column. This happens when
variables that are on the left side of the table are equal to
corresponding elements of the last column. All other
variables are zero. If at least one of the negative indicators,
you must repeat the same process with the new table,
starting with step 2.

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