EXERCISE

1. Coach Night is trying to choose the starting lineup for the basketball team. The team consists of seven
players who have been rated (on a scale of 1 poor to 3 excellent) according to their ball-handling, shooting,
rebounding, and defensive abilities. The positions that each player is allowed to play and the player’s
abilities are listed in Table. The five-player starting lineup must satisfy the following restrictions:
 At least 4 members must be able to play guard, at least 2 members must be able to play forward,
and at least 1 member must be able to play center.
 The average ball-handling, shooting, and rebounding level of the starting lineup must be at least
2. (Consider that starting line-up consists of 5 players.)
 If player 3 starts, then player 6 cannot start.
 If player 1 starts, then players 4 and 5 must both start.
 Either player 2 or player 3 must start.

Player Position Ball Handling Shooting Rebounding Defense

1 Guard
2 Center
3 Guard, Forward
4 Forward, Center
5 Guard, Forward
6 Forward, Center
7 Guard, Forward
3 3
2 1
2 3
1 3
3 3
3 1
3 2
1 3
3 2
2 2
3 1
3 3
2 3
2 1

Given these constraints, Coach Night wants to maximize the total defensive ability of the starting team.
Formulate an IP that will help him choose his starting team.
2. Doc Councillman is putting together a relay team for the 400-meter relay. Each swimmer must swim 100
meters of breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, or freestyle. Doc believes that each swimmer will attain
the times given in Table. To minimize the team’s time for the race, which swimmer should swim which
stroke?

3. The company has four plants in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore and Richmond and three customers
in Wilmington, Columbia and Charlotte. The capacities of each plant are 150 products, and the demands
for customers are 200, 350 and 150 products. The mileage chart between the plants and the distribution
centers is given in Table. The company in charge of transporting the products charges $ 0,05 per mile.
There is a penalty for each unmet distribution center demand as $25 (without distance) per customer.
Minimize the shipping cost.

Wilmington Columbia Charlotte

New York 250 100 300
San Francisco 300 150 350
Baltimore 350 200 100
Richmond 400 450 250
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s1, s2 and s3 are the slack variables of the first, second and third constraints, respectively. You are given the fact
that the basic variables in the optimal solution are x2, x3 and s1.

 Find the optimal basic solution (i.e. optimal values of the variables) and objective function value for the
above problem. You are required to answer this question without using the simplex method.

 Write down the dual problem.

 Use complementary slackness to find the optimal values of the dual variables and the dual problem’s
optimal objective function value.

5.

Find the optimal table. (BV: S1, X2, X1 , NBV: E2, A2, A3)
 Find the range of values of the right-hand side of the third constraint (4 x1 + 2 x2 = 7) for which the
current basis remains optimal.
 Find the range of values of the objective function coefficient of x1 for which the current basis remains optimal.

6. Use the branch-and-bound method to find the optimal solution to the following IP:
max 𝑧 = 4𝑥1 + 3𝑥2 + 𝑥3
𝑠. 𝑡 3𝑥1 + 2𝑥2 + 𝑥3 ≤ 7
2𝑥1 + 𝑥2 + 2𝑥3 ≤ 11
𝑥2 , 𝑥3 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑒𝑟 , 𝑥1 , 𝑥2 , 𝑥3 ≥ 0
Solution 6: