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Solving System of Linear Equations:
‘The slack variables represent dummy (Fictitious or imaginary) products with
zero profit per unit.
Here total no. of variables a = 4 and number of constraints m=
‘Using elementary row operations the system (E) can equivalently be written
:
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x #24 -% = 300
x: +2s,-5, = 300
“Here system (E), (F),(G) are all equivalent.
‘Hence solving system (G), we get x, = 150, x:
00
“A basic solution can be obtained by setting any of the 2 variables equal
te zero and then solving the constraint equations. The total no. of basic
solutions wll be
4“ ax x20
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‘The choice of any two basic variables are purely arbitrary. Here, infact any two
variables can be selected as basic variables out of possible 4 variables to obtain @
basic solution, These can be extended to the constraint equations of a standard.
linear program with m constraints and variables, the maximum number of basic
solutions to the standard linear program is finite and is given by