A county transportation agency has asked you to suggest the allocation of bridge preservation budget of 50 million between Interstate and non-Interstate highway bridges. Political considerations require that urban populations receive at least $25 million in benefits and rural areas at least $10 million.As a rule of thumb, a $1 million investment yields total user benefits of$1.25 million for $1 million spent on Interstate highway bridges.$1 million for $1 million spent on non-Interstate highway bridges.The research also indicates that the distribution of benefits for each highway is.as shown in the attached tablea) Formulate a linear programming (LP) problem to maximize total user benefits subject to the agency’s constraints BridgeUrbanSuburbanRuralInterstate40%40%20%Non-Interstate30%30%40%

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A county transportation agency has asked you to suggest the allocation of bridge preservation budget of 50 million between Interstate and non-Interstate highway bridges. Political considerations require that urban populations receive at least $25 million in benefits and rural areas at least $10 million.

As a rule of thumb, a $1 million investment yields total user benefits of