A fundamental unsolved problem in the programming area is one in which various activities have fixed charges (e.g., set‐up time charges) if operating at a positive level. Properties of a general solution to this type problem are discussed in this paper. Under special circumstances it is shown that a fixed charge problem can be reduced to an ordinary linear programming problem.
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