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The simplex method is a technique for solving problems in linear programming.

Additional variables, known as slack variables, are introduced to convert inequalities to equations.

The feasible solutions are then obtained by an iterative process.

These can be set out in arrays called tableaux.

Thus the conversion inequalities to equations enables the boundaries of a simplex or feasible region which satisfies the constraints.

The optimum solution then lies at a vertex of this simplex.

The algorithm provides a systematic method of eliminating vertices until the optimizing vertex is identified.