Question

Adirondack Savings Bank (ASB) has $1 million in new funds that must be allocated to home loans, personal loans, and automobile loans. The annual rates of return for the three types of loans are 4% for home loans, 12% for personal loans, and 7% for automobile loans. The bank’s planning committee has decided that at least 40% of the new funds must be allocated to home loans. In addition, the planning committee has specified that the amount allocated to personal loans cannot exceed 60% of the amount allocated to automobile loans.

(a)	Formulate a linear programming model that can be used to determine the amount of funds ASB should allocate to each type of loan to maximize the total annual return for the new funds. If the constant is "1" it must be entered in the box. If your answer is zero enter “0”.
	Let H = amount allocated to home loans P = amount allocated to personal loans A = amount allocated to automobile loans
	Max H + P + A s.t. H + P + A ≥ Minimum Home Loans H + P + A ≤ Personal Loan Requirement H + P + A = Amount of New Funds
(b)	How much should be allocated to each type of loan?
	Loan type Allocation Home $ Personal $ Automobile $
	What is the total annual return?
	If required, round your answer to nearest whole dollar amount.
	$
	What is the annual percentage return?
	If required, round your answer to two decimal places.
	%
(c)	If the interest rate on home loans increases to 9%, would the amount allocated to each type of loan change?
	- Select your answer -YesNoItem 21
	Explain.
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(d)	Suppose the total amount of new funds available is increased by $10,000. What effect would this have on the total annual return? Explain.
	If required, round your answer to nearest whole dollar amount.
	An increase of $10,000 to the total amount of funds available would increase the total annual return by $ .
(e)	Assume that ASB has the original $1 million in new funds available and that the planning committee has agreed to relax the requirement that at least 40% of the new funds must be allocated to home loans by 1%. How much would the annual return change?
	If required, round your answer to nearest whole dollar amount.
	$
	How much would the annual percentage return change?
	If required, round your answer to two decimal places.
	%

Answer 1

a.         Let       H         =          amount allocated to home loans

                        P          =          amount allocated to personal loans

                        A         =          amount allocated to automobile loans

Max	0.07H	+	0.12P	+	0.09A
s.t.
	H	+	P	+	A	=	1,000,000	Amount of New Funds
	0.6H	-	0.4P	-	0.4A	≥	0	Minimum Home Loans
			P	-	0.6A	≤	0	Personal Loan Requirement

b.         H = $400,000 P = $225,000 A = $375,000

            Total annual return = $88,750

            Annual percentage return = 8.875%

c.         The objective coefficient range for H is No Lower Limit to 0.101.  Since 0.09 is within the range, the solution obtained in part (b) will not change.

d.         The dual price for constraint 1 is 0.089.  The right-hand-side range for constraint 1 is 0 to No Upper Limit.  Therefore, increasing the amount of new funds available by $10,000 will increase the total annual return by 0.089 (10,000) = $890.

e.         The second constraint now becomes

  -0.61H - 0.39P - 0.39A ≥ 0

            The new optimal solution is

                                                H = $390,000 P = $228,750 A = $381,250

            Total annual return = $89,062.50, an increase of $312.50

            Annual percentage return = 8.906%, an increase of approximately 0.031%.