Consider the linear programming problem
minimize subject to −2x1−3x2−2x32x1+2x2+4x3⩽54x1+2x2−5x3⩽85x1−4x2+21x3⩽5,xi⩾0,i=1,2,3.
(i) After adding slack variables z1,z2 and z3 and performing one iteration of the simplex algorithm, the following tableau is obtained.
\begin{tabular}{c|rrrrrr|c} & x1 & x2 & x3 & z1 & z2 & z3 & \ \hlinex2 & −1 & 1 & 2 & 1/2 & 0 & 0 & 5/2 \ z2 & 6 & 0 & −9 & −1 & 1 & 0 & 3 \ z3 & 1 & 0 & 17/2 & 2 & 0 & 1 & 15 \ \hline Payoff & −1 & 0 & 4 & 3/2 & 0 & 0 & 15/2 \end{tabular}
Complete the solution of the problem.
(ii) Now suppose that the problem is amended so that the objective function becomes
2x1−3x2−5x3
Find the solution of this new problem.
(iii) Formulate the dual of the problem in (ii) and identify the optimal solution to the dual.