4.
After reviewing HJ’s recommendation, the Flamingo’s management team asked how the
recommendation would change if the objective of the advertising campaign was to maximize the
number of potential new customers reached. Develop the media schedule under this objective.
Remove constraint no 7 and using if for objective function:
Max potential new customer reach = 4000 x T1 + 1500 x T2 + 2000 x R1 + 1200 x R2 + 1000 x N1 + 800 x N2
within the given budget of 279000
T1 T2 R1 R2 N1 N2 Objective
Decision variables 10 4 15 13 20 35 2130
Constraint 4000 1500 2000 1200 1000 800 139600
Coefficients 90 55 25 20 10 5
T1 T2 R1 R2 N1 N2 LHS RHS
Constraint1 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 <= 10
Constraint2 0 0 1 0 0 0 15 <= 15
Constraint3 0 0 0 0 1 0 20 <= 20
Constraint4 10000 10000 3000 3000 1000 1000 279000 <= 279000
Constraint5 1 1 0 0 0 0 14 <= 20
Constraint6 0 0 3000 3000 0 0 84000 <= 99000
Constraint7 -2 -2 1 1 0 0 0 >= 0
Constraint8 10000 10000 0 0 0 0 140000 >= 140000
Constraint9 0 0 0 0 1000 1000 55000 >= 30000
Media Number of Ads Budget
Television 14 $ 1,40,000
Radio 28 $ 84,000
Newspaper 55 $ 55,000
Totals 97 $ 2,79,000
Total Exposure Rating 2130
Total New Customer Reached 139600