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Fund A sells for $15 a share and has a 3-year average annual return of $0.25 a share. The beta value is 1.07.
Fund B sells for $17 a share and has a 3-year average annual return of $0.91 a share. The beta value is 0.77.
Jonquin wants to spend no more than $3600 investing in these two funds, but he wants to obtain at least $80
in annual revenue. Jonquin also wants to minimize the risk. Determine the number of shares of each fund that
Jonquin should buy.
Set up the linear programming problem. Let a represent the number of shares in Fund A, b represent the
number of shares in Fund B, and z represent the total beta value.
Minimize
z=0
subject to
15a + 17b
0.25a +0.91b
a 20, b20.
(Use integers or decimals for any numbers in the expressions. Do not include the $ symbol in your answers.)