Consider a young boy whose happiness (H) is a function of number of movies he watches (m), the number of songs he buys to listen on his music player (s) and the number of games he buys to play on his game console (g).
(I'm not naming the music device or the game console so that the discussion can stay on the question rather than on which device is better)
His happiness H is defined as:
H = 10 m0.9 s0.2 g1.6 + K
K because he is generally happy to have you around to answer to his puzzles
Each movie costs $10, each song costs $1 and each game costs $50 and his total budget is $800.
How many of each (movies/ songs/ games) should he buy in order to maximise his happiness. Also, he doesn't want to spend more than 50% of the budget on any one of these three.
(Lets try to get a solution using logic (and some math, of course) rather than by writing some computer program)
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Consider a young boy whose happiness (H) is a function of number of movies he watches (m), the number of songs he buys to listen on his music player (s) and the number of games he buys to play on his game console (g).
(I'm not naming the music device or the game console so that the discussion can stay on the question rather than on which device is better)
His happiness H is defined as:
H = 10 m0.9 s0.2 g1.6 + K
K because he is generally happy to have you around to answer to his puzzles
Each movie costs $10, each song costs $1 and each game costs $50 and his total budget is $800.
How many of each (movies/ songs/ games) should he buy in order to maximise his happiness. Also, he doesn't want to spend more than 50% of the budget on any one of these three.
(Lets try to get a solution using logic (and some math, of course) rather than by writing some computer program)
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