point are summarized in a table that is referred to as a tableau.

A tableau is useful because there are numerous calculations to keep track of: a tableau
not optimal, the numerical values in the tableau can be manipulated to obtain the
values of a similar tableau for the next extreme point. The process continues in this
manner,
with ever-improving
the initial simplex tableau can be developed.
In order to be able to refer in a general way to a simplex
summarizes the results of each iteration.Among the information contained in a tableau
are
the values of all basic solutions, until the optimal extreme point has been identified.
In LP problems that have all less-th
later section will address those kinds of constraints
and show how to obtain the tableau form of the problem.
Once an LP model has been expressed in tableau form, an-or-equal-to constraints, the
standard form and
the tableau form are the same. That is not the case for problems that have equal-to or
greater-than-or-equal-to constraints. A variables (the nonbasic variables have values of
zero), the value of the
objective function at that extreme point, and whether or not the solution is optimal. If a
solution
is