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Activity 5: Overview

Explore technology-assisted decision-making. Learn to optimize outcomes with advanced algorithms and techniques in different industries.
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In this activity you will have a chance to give linear programming a go for yourself!

You will also see some optional problems that ‘look’ and ‘feel’ like linear programming but are in fact somewhat different.

Learning objective

By the end of this activity, you should be able to:

  • apply linear programming to optimise a two variable linear optimisation problem.

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Introduction to Technology-Assisted Decision-Making

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