Math 1310: ICYMI Tips for Assignment 2

Published: Tue, 02/03/15

Did you read my tips on how to study and learn Math 1310?  If not, here is a link to those important suggestions:
Did you see my tips for Assignment 1?
Tips for Assignment 2
Here is a link to the actual assignment, in case you don't have it handy:
Note that you need to study Lesson 4 (Linear Programming and Feasibility Regions) and Lesson 5 (The Simplex Method) from my Matrices for Management book to prepare for this assignment.
PLEASE NOTE:  I have totally re-jigged my Matrices for Management book this year.  Two new lessons have been added, and I have changed the order of many of the other lessons to better fit the syllabus for the distance course.  I always appreciate it when students purchase the current edition of my books, as that does subsidize my efforts to offer things like these free tips.  If you choose to make do with an older edition of my book, please realize that you are missing some things, but you can probably make do.  I leave it up to you to look at the Table of Contents in my free sample of the book above to clarify what lesson number in your old book pertains to the lessons I mention in my tips.
Don't have my book or audio lectures?  You can download a free sample of my book and audio lectures containing Lessons 1, 2 and  3:
I think you should find this assignment fairly straightforward if you do thoroughly study and do all the Practise Problems I give you in Lessons  4 and 5.
Question 1
By the "corner point" method, they mean using a graph as I do in Lesson 4.  Be sure to draw a graph and shade the feasibility region to identify the corner points.  Label all the lines you draw on the graph and all the corner points.
Question 2
Just another question like question 1 above.
Question 3
Make sure you have studied my strategies for solving Word Problems discussed in Lesson 3 of my book and also exemplified by Lesson 4, questions 4 and 5 in the Lecture Problems. 

Be sure you clearly define all the variables you use, and don't forget to say x > 0, etc.

Obviously, you will also need to study Lesson 5, question 2 for another word problem example and use of the Simplex Method.  Do note that they only require you write the very first Simplex Table, as I illustrate in Lesson 5.  You do not solve this problem.
Question 4
I show you how to perform the Simplex Algorithm in Lesson 5.