Enrollment Management. An engineering department chair wants to maximize the use of scholarship dollars to shape...

Enrollment Management. An engineering department chair wants to maximize the use of scholarship dollars to shape the enrollment of the incoming freshmen. All applicants take an engineering aptitude test and receive a scholarship based on their score. Here is the scholarship award amount:

Test Score	80	85	90	95	100
Scholarship Amount	2090	2570	3290	3900	4160

The department chair wants to

award scholarships to 100 students

with at least 5 scholarships given to students in each test score

and a total of $350,000 spent on the 100 scholarships.

What is the maximum average test score the freshmen class can have?

Expert Solution

Using solver the final answer is 93.42,

keosha answered 1 year ago

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