THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

SEEM2420A Operations Research I
Assignment 4

Question 1.

Work through the revised simplex method (the matrix form of the simplex method) step by
step to solve the following problem.
Maximize
subject to

= 5
2
3

+
1 +
1 +
j  0 (

x1

+ 7 3 + 4
+ 3 3 + 2
+ 4 3 + 2
2 3 4 5)

x4

8 2
3 2
5 2
=1

x4

x4

+ 6
+ 2
+ 4

x5
x5

x5

 20
 30

Question 2.

Consider the following problem.

Maximize
subject to

= 20
8
4
2

x1
x1

xj

x1

+ 6
+ 2
+ 3

x2

+ 8
+ 3

x3

x3

x3

x2
x2

x1

 0 ( = 1 2 3)
j

x3






200
100
50
20

Let 4 , 5 , 6 and 7 denote the slack variables for the rst through fourth constraints,
respectively. Suppose that after some number of iterations of the simplex method, a portion
of the current simplex tableau is as follows:
x

Basic
Variable
Z
x1
x2
x6
x7

Coecient of:
Z

1
0
0
0
0

x1

x2

x3

x4

94
3 16
14
38
0
=

=
=

1
1
1
1

x5

2
8
2
4
0

=
=

x6

0
0
0
1
0

x7

0
0
0
0
1

Right
Side

Use the fundamental insight to identify the missing numbers in the current simplex tableau.
Show your calculations.

Question 3.

Consider the following problem.

Minimize
subject to

= 2

+
+
3 1 +
j  0 (
x1

x1
x

3 2 + 2
4 2 + 2
2 2
= 1 2 3)
x

x3

x3

 8
 6

Let  = . Let 4 and 6 be the excess variables for the rst and second constraints,
respectively. Let 5 and 7 be the corresponding articial variables. After you make the
adjustments for this model form when using the Big-M method, the initial simplex tableau
ready to apply the simplex method is as follows:
Z

Basic
Variable

5
7


1
0
0

x
x

Coecient of:
x1

x2

4 +2
1
3

x3

6 +3
4
2

2 +2
2
0


0
1 1
0 0

x4

x5

Right
Side
6 7
0 14
0 0 8
1 1 6

After you apply the simplex method, a portion of the nal simplex tableau is as follows:
Basic
Variable 

1
0
2
0
1
Z

x
x

x1

x2

Coecient of:
5
3
4
05
03
02

x6

Right
7 Side
05
01
04
x

Based on the above tableaux, use the fundamental insight to identify the missing numbers in
the nal simplex tableau. Show your calculations.