BMAT 2019 · Question 27 · Optimisation
SaveGeorge enjoys reading newspapers and is considering whether he should take out any subscriptions. Details of the daily cost and subscription tariffs for each of the five newspapers he reads are as follows:
George decides he will read at least three different newspapers in one format or the other each week. One of these must be the Times but it doesn’t matter which the other two are. He wants to read a printed newspaper twice a week. What is the minimum George will need to spend in a year on his newspaper access?