MATAPRE ASSIGNMENT #10

Blogging About Efficiency

The purpose of this assignment is to have you reflect on your experiences as you study the topic on
Efficiency (as applications of Linear Programming and Graph Theory).

Write a blog that focuses on answering the following guide questions.

1) What does it mean when you say that a method is efficient?

2) Give an example of a real life situation that can be considered as a maximization/minimization
problem. Can you describe how linear programming can help you solve this problem?
3) What is your understanding of the shortest path problem?
4) What is your understanding of the transportation problem?
5) What is your understanding of the assignment problem?
4) How do you find the lessons under this topic? Are they easy or difficult to understand? Will they
be useful to you?