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 7 percent for home loans, 12 percent for personal loans, and 9 percent for automobile loans. The bank's planning committee has decided that at least 40 percent 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 percent 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.

b. How much should be allocated to each type of loan? What is the total annual return? What is the annual percentage return?

c. If the interest rate on home loans increases to 9 percent, would the amount allocated to each type of loan change? Explain.

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.

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 percent of the new funds must be allocated to home loans by 1 percent. How much would the annual return change? How much would the annual percentage return change?