An objective function in linearprogramming is a (n):

decisionvariable.

environmentvariable.

resultvariable.

independentvariable.

constant.

Answer: An objective function in linear programming is a decision variable.

Explanation: An objective function is a function which has the target towards the model whether it should be maximized or minimized according to the relation between the variables present in the function. There are set of variables which are responsible for the controlling of objective function that is known as decision variables.