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Huey McDuck has received $70,000 from his rich uncle and wantsto determine how much to invest in each of four differentinvestments: municipal bonds expected to return 8.5%, CDs expectedto return 5%, T-bills expected to return 6.5% and a stock fundexpected to return 13%.

The following guidelines have been established to ensure thatthe portfolio is diversified for reduced risk.

  1. No more than 20% of the total investment should be in municipalbonds
  2. At least 30% of the investment should be in T-bills

Write the LP formulation

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Report the optimal solution and total expectedreturn

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Let the amount of money invested in municipal bonds CDsTbills and stock funds be x1x2x3 and x4 respectivelySo the profit function which we need to maximize isZ 1085x1    See Answer
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