Unboundedness and Infeasibility of LPP
Unboundedness and Infeasibility of LPP
Unboundedness and Infeasibility of LPP
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Unbounded Solution
• The unbounded solutions typically arise because some real
constraints, which represent a practical resource limitation, have
been missed from the linear programming formulation. In such
situation the problem needs to be reformulated and re-solved.
• When the feasible region is unbounded, a maximization problem may
don’t have optimal solution, since the values of the decision variables
may be increased arbitrarily.
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Unbounded feasible region Example
This is illustrated with the help of the following problem.
Maximize
3x1 + x2
Subject to:
x1 + x2 ≥ 6
-x1 + x2 ≤ 6
-x1 + 2x2 ≥ -6
and
x1, x2 ≥ 0
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Graphical Reprentation of the equations
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Unbouned feasible region
• Graph shows the unbounded
feasible region and
demonstrates that the objective
function can be made arbitrarily
large by increasing the values of
x1 and x2 within the unbounded
feasible region. In this case,
there is no point (x1, x2) is
optimal because there are
always other feasible points for
which objective function is
larger.
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Infeasible Solution
• A linear programming problem is said to be infeasible if no feasible
solution of the problem exists. This section describes infeasible
solution of the linear programming problem with the help of the
following Example:
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Example
Infeasible region problem in LPP can be explained with the help of the following
example
Minimize
200x1 + 300x2
Subject to the constraints
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Infeasible Solution
• The above equations can be
represented in the graph shown here.
• The region right of the boundary AFE
includes all the solutions which satisfy
the first (4x1 + 6x2≥ 2400) and the
third (4x1 + 3x2 ≥ 1800) constraints.
The region left of the BC contains all
solutions which satisfy the second
constraint (2x1 + 2x2 ≤ 800).
• Hence, there is no solution satisfying
all the three constraints (first, second,
and third). Thus, the linear problem is
infeasible.
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Recommended Text Books:
• Budnik, Frank S. Dennis Mcleavey, Reichard : Principles of Operations Research, 2nd ed.,
• Richard Irwin, Illinois – All India Traveler Bookseller, New Delhi, 1995.
• Gould, F.J. etc. : Introduction to Management Science, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc., 1993.
• Mathur, K and Solow, D. : Management Science, Englewood, New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc., 1994.
Reference Books:
• Sharma, J.K.: Operations Research : Theory and Applications, New Delhi, Macmillian India Ltd., 1997.
• Narang A.S. : Linear Programming Decision-Making. New Delhi, Sultan Chand, 1995.
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