� If two corner points of the feasible region are both optimal solutions of the
same type, i e , both produce the same maximum or minimum, then any point
on the line segment joining these two points is also an optimal solution of the
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Historical Note
In the World War II, when the war operations had to be planned to economise
expenditure, maximise damage to the enemy, linear programming problems
came to the forefront