Question: solve this optimation problem b y hand 3 . ( 2 0 ) A special court commission appointed t o resolve a bitter fight over

solve this optimation problem by hand
3.(20) A special court commission appointed to resolve a bitter fight over legislative redistricting has
proposed 6 combinations of the 5 disputed counties that could form new districts. The following table
marks the counties composing each proposed district and shows the district's deviation from the equal-
population norm.
The court wants to select a minimum total deviation collection of districts that includes each county
exactly once. Formulate this problem as a set partitioning ILP.
4.(20) Consider the pure integer linear program. After solving the LP relaxation, we obtained the
optimal simplex dictionary as follows:
xk?b=ar(b)k-jinN?kjxj for all kinB
xj0 for all j,
where B denotes the set of basic variables and N denotes the set of nonbasic variables.
Suppose that ?bar(b)kis fractional for some kinB. Let fk0 denote the fractional part of?bar(b)k, and fkj
denote the fractional part ofkj. Then the classic Gomory fractional cut can be obtained as
jinN?fkjxjfk0
which can be strengthened to
fkjfk0?fkjxj+fkj>fk0?fk01-fk0(1-fkj)xjfk0
(a)(5) Show that the strengthened form is tighter than the classic Gomory fractional cut.
(b)(15) Explain how the strengthened form of Gomory cut can be derived.
solve this optimation problem b y hand 3 . ( 2 0

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