Ie400 HW1
Ie400 HW1
Ie400 HW1
Homework 1
Spring 2022-2023
Deadline: 21 April 2023
(a) You are expected to come up with a linear programming model to choose
the coordinates of the location of the warehouse such that the sum of
the distances to all clients is as small as possible.
(b) How you modify your model in part (a) if your objective is to minimize
the largest of the five distance values?
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Question 2. Consider the following linear programming model (LP):
min c1 x − c2 y
s.t. x − 2y ≤ 4
−x + y ≤ 3
x≥0
y≥0
Find positive coefficients c1 and c2 such that LP will have a unique optimal
solution.
(a) The bfs is optimal and there exists an alternate optimal bfs.
(b) The bfs is optimal and there exists alternate optimal solutions but only
one bfs which is optimal.
(c) The bfs is not optimal and x5 will become nonbasic after the next pivot.
(d) The bfs is not optimal and x3 will become basic after the next pivot.
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(e) The bfs is degenerate.
Question 4. Turkish Airlines wants to plan seat arrangements for its up-
coming flights that use 8 planes. The company currently has 20 planes to
choose from. There are two flight classes, namely economy, and business.
The plane room capacity is defined based on economy seats. Each plane can
seat up to 200 economy-class passengers. A business seat uses more room
and thus takes 1.5 times more seat room than an economy seat. The price of
a business ticket is two times that of an economy ticket. According to recent
regulations, if the total economy class seats over all 8 planes is less than a
certain threshold T (a given parameter), the company pays a penalty of $S
(another given parameter). Assume the ticket price for an economy seat is
$p (another given parameter).
(a) Formulate an integer programming model that will help Turkish Airlines
maximize its profit (total sales revenue-penalty cost (if any)) while obey-
ing the capacity and operational limitations. Your model should be in
linear form.
(b) Now assume Turkish Airlines set a goal of G dollars for its upcoming
year’s total sales revenue (ignoring the penalty cost, if any). Formulate
this variant under the requirement that the maximum number of business
seats in each plane is minimum. You may define additional variables if
you like.
(c) Write the following additional restrictions due to some operational limi-
tations in linear form to be appended to the model in part (a).