Augmented Form (slack Form)
Linear programming problems must be converted into augmented form before being solved by the simplex algorithm. This form introduces non-negative slack variables to replace inequalities with equalities in the constraints. The problem can then be written in the following block matrix form:
- Maximize Z:
- x, xs ≥ 0
where xs are the newly introduced slack variables, and Z is the variable to be maximized.
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