PEMECAHAN MASALAH NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING DENGAN LAGRANGEAN METHOD MENGGUNAKAN SUBSTITUTION METHOD ATAU MICROSOFT EXCEL
<p><em>Lagrange Multipliers are a mathematical tool for constrained optimization of differentiable functions. The given procedure defines the Lagrangean Method for identifying the stationary points of optimization problems with equality constraints; L (ℷ, X) = f(X) – ℷg(X – C). This function is called the Lagrangean function and the parameters ℷ is the Lagrange Multipliers. The partial derivatives of this equation ∂L/∂ℷ = 0 and ∂L/∂X = 0 will give the optimal result for X.</em></p><p><em>However, in some cases, sometimes we have been facing some difficulties to solve nonlinear programming problem with this method, therefore we would like to introduce the <strong>Substitution Method</strong> or <strong>Microsoft Excel Method</strong>, which is simple, easier and faster to solve the nonlinear programming problem. Because of the mathematical nature of nonlinear programming models, and in management science we do not have a single general technique to solve all mathematical models that can arise in practice, therefore simpler approaches should be explored first. In some cases, a “common sense” solution may be reached through simple observations. </em><em> </em></p>