Homework Assignment #1

Business Optimization

Spring 2022

Deadline: You may submit your assignment on the 24th of march at the earliest and on the 27th of
march at the latest. Early submission allows for feedback on your assignment if requested.
Submissions made after march 27th, 23:59 will not be graded with no exceptions

Deliverables: You should submit a pdf file containing typed solutions with the hand-drawn graph for
problem 4 (draw it by hand, photograph it, crop the photo and insert it). However, it is acceptable to
do the whole assignment by hand, take a very clear photograph of it and submit it.

For problem 3: you should submit an Excel interface and a lingo script containing your code.
Submitting a code without an interface or an interface without the code will not be taken into
consideration.

Grade: This assignment is equivalent to at least 30% of your tutorial grade

Anti-plagiarism policy: Any attempted cheating will result in an F in the Business Optimization
course. This assignment is individual. No exceptions.

Support: If you have issues with the assignment contact your tutorial instructor, we will not give you
the answer but we will do our best to guide you to the correct direction. It is more important to us
that you learn from this assignment than to get perfect answers, so please do not cheat!

Teachers’ contact information:

Roua: roua.benammar.1994@gmail.com

Fadwa: fadwaaouini92@gmail.com

Hatem: Hatem.Araar@tbs.u-tunis.tn
Table 1

Table 2
 𝑀𝑖𝑛 𝑍 = 𝑥1 − 𝑥2
𝑥1 ≤ 4 (1)
−𝑥1 ≤ 2 (2)
𝑥1 + 2𝑥2 ≤ 6 (3)
−𝑥1 + 2𝑥2 ≤ 8 (4)
𝑥1 , 𝑥2 ≥ 0

𝑀𝑎𝑥 𝑍 = 2𝑥1 + 𝑥2 𝑀𝑎𝑥 𝑍 = 20𝑥1 + 12𝑥2

𝑠. 𝑡. 𝑥1 − 𝑥2 ≤ 10 𝑠. 𝑡 10𝑥1 + 6𝑥2 ≤ 60

2𝑥1 − 𝑥2 ≤ 40 2𝑥1 + 4𝑥2 ≤ 36

𝑥1 , 𝑥2 ≥ 0 𝑥1 , 𝑥2 ≥ 0

𝑀𝑎𝑥 𝑍 = 3𝑥1 − 2𝑥2

𝑠. 𝑡. 2𝑥1 + 4𝑥2 ≥ 8

𝑥1 + 2𝑥2 ≤ 2

𝑥1 , 𝑥2 ≥ 0
𝑀𝑎𝑥 𝑍 = 6𝑥1 + 10𝑥3

5𝑥1 + 2𝑥2 + 6𝑥3 ≤ 10

𝑥1 + 4𝑥2 + 6𝑥3 ≤ 8

7𝑥1 + 𝑥3 ≤ 12

𝑥1 , 𝑥2 , 𝑥3 ≥ 0

LP 1

LP 2