1. Discuss why and how you would use a liner programming model for a project of your choice‚ either from your own work or as a hypothetical situation. Be sure that you stae your situation first‚ before you develpp the LP model Linear programming is a modeling technique that is used to help managers make logical and informed decisions. All date and input factors are known with certainty. Linear program models are developed in three different steps: Formulation Solution Interpretation
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Linear Programming Concept Paper There are two types of linear programming: 1. Linear Programming- involves no more than 2 variables‚ linear programming problems can be structured to minimize costs as well as maximize profits. Due to the increasing complexity of business organizations‚ the role of the management executive as a decision maker is becoming more and more difficult. Linear programming is a useful technique to solve such problems. The necessary condition is that the data must be
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SET A: 10897143‚ 10977570‚ 10879587‚ 10870342‚ 10873279‚ 10857133‚ 10661867‚ 10878440‚ 11090782‚ 10770518‚ 10893091 Three electric power plants with capacities of 25‚ 40‚ and 30 million KWh supply electricity to three cities. The maximum demands at the three cities are estimated at 30‚ 35 and 25 million KWh. The price per million KWh at the three cities is given in the table below. [pic] During the month of August‚ there is a 20% increase in demand at each of the three cities‚ which can
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INVESTMENT STRATEGY REPORT Submitted to J. D. Williams‚ Inc. By Mizar Gonzalez Industrial Engineering Department Southern Polytechnic State university 404-519-2792 February 20‚ 2008 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report is our recommendation for an optimal investment strategy that would allow J. D. Williams‚ Inc. to maximize the annual yield of an investment of $800‚000 in a diversified portfolio of funds. To find the investment that would result in the greatest annual yield
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Linear Programming Application Transportation Problem The Navy has 9‚000 pounds of material in Albany‚ Georgia that it wishes to ship to three installations: San Diego‚ Norfolk‚ and Pensacola. They require 4‚000‚ 2‚500‚ and 2‚500 pounds‚ respectively. Government regulations require equal distribution of shipping among the three carriers. The shipping costs per pound for truck‚ railroad‚ and airplane transit are shown below. Formulate and solve a linear program to determine the shipping
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12)‚ 28‚ 30. Please use Excel solver function. I posted an annotated solution to Problem 2-5. This problem is an examplar for both the chapter 2 and 3 problems. In this example I show how I typically set up a problem. First I set up the linear programming model and then develop a parallel set-up to use as input to the Solver add-in. I use this strategy because I first like to set up the problem solution before I worry about setting up the parameters for using Solver. 24. Universal Claims Processors
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INTRODUCTION My topic is oil refinering using linear programming‚ this is under petrochemical industries which mean it will deal more about chemicals‚ this is about optimising the cost using a modelling method in mathematics called linear programming. This is very important because it links what is done in petrochemical industries with mathematics. Since there is a huge need of the products that are produced after petroleum refinering which are petrol‚ gasoline‚ oil‚ diesel and etc so in the
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Linear Programming in Finance‚ Accounting and Economics Sijia Lu 7289928683 Abstract This article is literatures review about five articles‚ which apply linear programming to Finance‚ accounting and economics. The mathematical method is found of crucial importance in those fields. The paper shows how theoretical inference in linear programming throws light upon realistic practice‚ and how empirical evidence supports those theories. Keywords: finance; accounting; economics; linear programming; investment
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Graphical and Simplex Methods of Linear Programming The graphical method is the more popular method to use because they are easy to use and understand. Working with only a few variables at a time they allow operations managers to compare projected demand to existing capacity. The graphical method is a trial and error approach that can be easily done by a manager or even a clerical staff. Since it is trial and error though‚ it does not necessarily generate the optimal plan. One downside of this
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Linear Modeling Project The purpose of this experiment is to determine whether a player’s statistics in baseball are related to the player’s salary. The sample set was taken out of 30 players who were randomly selected from the top 100 fantasy baseball players in 2007. We displayed the information with a scatter plot‚ and then determined with a linear equation the line of best fit. Along with the line of best fit we are going to analyze the Pearson Correlation Coefficient. This value is represented
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