Example 1: A Graphical Representation of a 2D Problem

The Acme Bicycle Company Example, as outlined in Chapter 2 of the notes, is summarized below:

 

This problem has only two variables so it can be sketched on a plane. The following demo will graph this problem in order to find the maximum daily profit, or the optimum point.

To begin the example press the start button.  If you would like to step through
the example, press Pause then the Step button.
This animation was created using Jawaa 2.0.  For the Jawaa 2.0 source code,
visit www.cs.duke.edu/csed/jawaa2.  For the source code for this animation,
click here.