Applications of Quantitative Models to Food, Resources and the Environment

Topics

• Identify the components of functions and their slopes
• Take derivatives of functions
• Solve single, multivariate, and constrained optimization problems
• Compute basic matrix operations
• Solve systems of linear equations
• Compute the determinant and the inverse of a matrix
• Identify and set up linear programming (LP) problems
• Identify the feasible region and obtain graphical solutions of LP problems
• Use the Simplex method to solve LP problems