February 2016
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
219h 58m
English
Now we look at three larger problems—ones that have more than two decision variables each and therefore are not graphed.
The foregoing examples each contained just two variables (X1 and X2). Most real-world problems (as we saw in the UPS OM in Action box) contain many more variables, however. Let’s use the principles already developed to formulate a few more-complex problems. The practice you will get by “paraphrasing” the following LP situations should help develop your skills for applying linear programming to other common operations situations.
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