The Beach Bum Publishing Company publishes two types of magazines on a
monthly basis, a restaurant and entertainment guide and a real estate
guide. The company distributes the magazine free to businesses, hotels,
and stores on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. The company's profits
come exclusively from the paid advertising in the magazines. Each of the
restaurant and entertainment guides distributed generates $0.50 per
magazine in advertising revenue, whereas the real estate guide generates
$0.75 per magazine. The real estate magazine is a more sophisticated
publication that includes color photos and accordingly it costs $0.25 per
magazine to print, campared with only $0.17 for the restaurant and
entertainment guide. The publishing company has a printing budget of
$4,000 per month. There is enough rack space to distribute at most 18,000
magazines each month. In order to entice businesses to place
advertisements, Beach Bum Publishing promises to distribute at least 8,000
copies of each magazine. The company wants to determine the number of
copies of each magazine it should print each month in order to maximize
advertising revenue.