Business Mathematics, B.Com (Hons)

Linear programming: simplex method

Every paper it came up in, with its marks and how they split between numerical and theory.

No. 1in the study order: adds 18 marks to a 90-mark paper
3/3papers it came in, 2023 to 2025
18marks on average when it comes
18most marks it has carried in one paper

Numerical 100%Theory 0%of its marks over all papers

Marks in each paper

18
2023’23Dec
18
2024’24Dec
18
2025’25Dec

NumericalTheoryOnly as an OR choiceCurrent-syllabus paper

Where it appeared one per sitting

December 2025Q5 in this paperDecember 2024Q5 in this paperDecember 2023Q5 in this paper

Current syllabus UGCF papers, newest first

  • Office furniture: formulating the LPP and solving it by the simplex method18 marksQuestion 5, December 2025, being checked
  • Reading a simplex table: completion, optimality, degeneracy, shadow prices12 marksQuestion 5 OR (b), December 2025, being checked
  • Linear programming: simplex method18 marksQuestion 5, December 2024, being checked
  • Minimum-cost blend of two raw materials by the simplex (Big-M) method12 marksQuestion 5 OR (b), December 2024
  • Linear programming: simplex method18 marksQuestion 5 OR, December 2023, being checked
  • Linear programming: simplex method12 marksQuestion 5 (b), December 2023, being checked
See the whole order.Every topic of Business Mathematics ranked by what it adds, with the OR choices accounted for.
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