# A political problem # Suppose that you are a politician trying to win an election. Your district has three # different types of areas - urban, suburban, and rural. These areas have, respectively, # 100,000, 200,000, and 50,000 registered voters. Although not all the registered voters # actually go to the polls, you decide that to govern effectively, you would like at least # half the registered voters in each of the three regions to vote for you. You are honorable # and would never consider supporting policies in which you do not believe. You realize, # however, that certain issues may be more effective in winning votes in certain places. # Your primary issues are building more roads, gun control, farm subsidies, and a gasoline tax # dedicated to improved public transit. # According to your campaign staff's research, you can estimate how many votes you win or lose # from each population segment by spending $1,000 on advertising on each issue. # POLICY | URBAN SUBURBAN RURAL # ----------------------------------------- # build roads | -2 5 3 # gun control | 8 2 -5 # farm subsidies | 0 0 10 # gasoline tax | 10 0 -2 # # In this table, each entry indicates the number of thousands of either urban, suburban, # or rural voters who would be won over by spending $1,000 on advertising in support of # a particular issue. Negative entries denote votes that would be lost. # Your task is to figure out the minimum amount of mony that you need to spend in order to win # 50,000 urban votes, 10,000 suburban votes, and 25,000 rural votes. from minizinc import * m = Model() x1 = m.Variable(0.0,10000.0) x2 = m.Variable(0.0,10000.0) x3 = m.Variable(0.0,10000.0) x4 = m.Variable(0.0,10000.0) m.Constraint( -2.0*x1 + 8.0*x2 + 0.0*x3 + 10.0*x4 >= 50.0, 5.0*x1 + 2.0*x2 + 0.0*x3 + 0.0*x4 >= 100.0, 3.0*x1 - 5.0*x2 + 10.0*x3 - 2.0*x4 >= 25.0, ) m._debugprint() m.mznmodel.set_time_limit(10) m.minimize(x1+x2+x3+x4) m.next() print "Minimize cost = ", x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 print "where x1 = ", x1 print " x2 = ", x2 print " x3 = ", x3 print " x4 = ", x4