Elizabeth Bailey is the owner and general manager of Princess Brides, which provides a wedding planning service

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Elizabeth Bailey is the owner and general manager of Princess Brides, which provides a wedding planning service in southwestern Louisiana. She uses radio advertising to market her business. Two types of ads are available—those during prime-time hours and those at other times. Each prime-time ad costs $390 and reaches 8,200 people, while the off-peak ads each cost

$240 and reach 5,100 people. Bailey has budgeted

$1,800 per week for advertising. Based on comments from her customers, Bailey wants to have at least two prime-time ads and no more than six off-peak ads.

(a) Formulate this as a linear program.

(b) Find a good or optimal integer solution for part

(a) by rounding off or making an educated guess at the answer.

(c) Solve this as an integer programming problem using a computer.

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Quantitative Analysis For Management

ISBN: 9781292217659

13th Global Edition

Authors: Barry Render, Ralph M. Stair, Michael Hanna, Trevor Hale

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