FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
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would like to determine the best way to allocate a monthly advertising budget of \$2,000 between newspaper advertising and advertising that % of the budget must be spent on each type of media and that the amount of money spent on local newspaper advertising must be at least two and a times advertisingA marketing consultant developed an index that measures audience exposure per of advertising on a scale from to 100, with higher implying greater audience exposureIf the value of the index for local newspaper advertising is 50 and the value of the index for radio advertising is , how should the advertising budget to maximize the value of total audience exposure? ) Formulate a programming model that can be used to determine how the restaurant should allocate its advertising budget in order to maximize the of . If the constant is * 1 * it must be entered in the boxIf your answer is N amount spent on amount spent on radio advertising N* Budget A R Allocation min ) Develop a spreadsheet model and the problem using Excel Solverrequired, round your answer to two decimal places Dollars Allocated Index
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