This video is part of a series of instructional videos for a MOOC course in Operations Research. It is intended to be used in conjunction with the materials on its associated Web pages and postings/forum on Google groups. You can access both from my homepage (salimian.webersedu.com).
The fifth topic covers Big-M technique of the simplex algorithm for solving linear programming problems. Discussion follows videos on topics 1 through 4 and is most useful if watched after those videos.