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A company is trying to determine how to allocate its $145,000 advertising budget for a new product. The company is considering newspaper ads and television commercials as its primary means for advertising. The following table summarizes the costs of advertising in these different media and the number of new customers reached by increasing amounts of advertising. Media & No of Ads No of New Customers Reached Cost per Ad Newspaper: $1,000 Newspaper: $900 Newspaper: $800 Television: ,000 $12,000 Television: ,500 $10,000 Television: ,000 $8,000 For instance, each of the first 10 ads the company place in newspapers will cost $1000 and is expected to reach 900 new customers. Each of the next 10 newspaper ads will cost $900 and is expected to reach 700 new customers. Note that the number of new customers reached by increasing amount of advertising decreases as the advertising saturates the market. Assume the company will purchase no more than 30 newspaper ads and no more than 15 television ads. Formulate an LP model for this problem to maximize the number of new customers reached by advertising.
Paper For Above instruction
The problem involves determining the optimal allocation of a fixed advertising budget among two media types—newspapers and television—to maximize the reach of new customers. To address this, we develop a linear programming (LP) model that incorporates variables representing the number of ads purchased in each medium, constraints based on budget and maximum allowable ads, and an objective function to maximize the total new customers reached.
Decision Variables
Let:
- \( x_N \) = number of newspaper ads purchased
- \( x_T \) = number of television ads purchased
This setup allows us to quantify how many ads are placed in each media, which in turn determines the costs and the number of new customers reached.
Parameters and Data
Cost per ad and customer reach vary with the number of ads, reflecting diminishing returns:
- For newspapers:
- The first 10 ads cost \$1,000 each, reach 900 customers per ad
- Ads 11-20 cost \$900 each, reach 700 customers per ad
- Ads 21-30 cost \$800 each, reach 500 customers per ad
- For television:
- Each ad costs \$12,000, reaches 1,500 customers
- Additional ads cost \$10,000, reach 1,200 customers
- Further ads cost \$8,000, reaching 1,000 customers each
The company has a total advertising budget of \$145,000, with constraints of purchasing no more than 30 newspaper ads and no more than 15 television ads.
Objective Function
The goal is to maximize the total number of new customers reached, which depends on the number of ads purchased in each medium and their respective efficiencies. Since the reach per ad decreases with additional ads, the total reach for each media must be calculated as the sum over different segments:
- For newspapers:
\[
\text{Customers from newspapers} = 900 \times \min(x_N,10) + 700 \times \max(\min(x_N,20) - 10, 0) + 500 \times \max(x_N - 20, 0)
\]
- For television:
\[
\text{Customers from TV} = 1500 \times y_1 + 1200 \times y_2 + 1000 \times y_3
\]
where \( y_1, y_2, y_3 \) are the segments corresponding to the number of ads in each pricing tier for television, similar to the newspaper segmentation. Alternatively, a simplified model can approximate this by assuming certain cumulative segments, but for accuracy, defining segment variables as above provides better detail.
Constraints
- Budget constraint:
- \[
- \text{Cost}_{N} + \text{Cost}_T \leq 145,000
- \]
with
- \(\text{Cost}_N = 1000 \times \text{min}(x_N,10) + 900 \times \max(\min(x_N,20) - 10, 0) + 800 \times \max(x_N - 20, 0)\)
- \(\text{Cost}_T = 12,000 \times y_1 + 10,000 \times y_2 + 8,000 \times y_3\)
- Ad count constraints:
- \[
- x_N \leq 30, \quad x_N \geq 0
- \]
- \[
- x_T \leq 15, \quad x_T \geq 0
- \]
and the segmentation variables for television \( y_1, y_2, y_3 \) must satisfy:
- \( y_1 + y_2 + y_3 = x_T \)
- \\( y_i \geq 0 \) for \( i=1,2,3 \)
Model Formulation
The LP model aims to maximize total customer reach:
\[
\text{Maximize} \quad Z = \text{Customers from newspapers} + \text{Customers from TV}
\]
subject to the above constraints, with detailed expressions for customer reaches appropriate to the incremental segmentation of advertising efforts.
Conclusion
This LP model captures the trade-offs between the number of ads, costs, and marginal customer reach, enabling the company to determine the optimal combination of newspaper and television advertising within its budget and ad count constraints to maximize new customer reach efficiently. Solving this model with LP techniques will yield the optimal advertising strategic decisions, balancing budget constraints, diminishing returns, and maximum ad counts.
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