How to Solve Linear Programming Problems With Examples and Implementation in Python

AI optimization algorithms

Cesar William Alvarenga
Better Programming
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5 min readOct 3, 2020

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The goal of linear programming is to minimize a cost function that has some number of variables (x₁, x₂, x₃) all the way up to x𝑛. Those variables are involved in things that I want to know the values to, and they might be multiplied by a coefficient and then added together.

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