Neco 2020 Agricultural Science Question 20
Practice objective / multiple choice question 20 from the 2020 Neco Agricultural Science examination.
An extension officer has a budget of \(250{,}000\) Naira to promote a new pest‑control technique to 200 smallholder farmers. Three dissemination methods are available: (1) Radio broadcast costing \(150{,}000\) Naira, reaching all farmers with an adoption probability of 0.4; (2) Group demonstration costing \(80{,}000\) Naira, reaching 60 % of the farmers with adoption probability 0.7; (3) Individual farm visits costing \(500\) Naira per farmer visited, with adoption probability 0.9. Determine the combination of methods that maximizes the expected number of adopters without exceeding the budget, and give that expected number.
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This is Neco 2020 Agricultural Science Question 20. It is one of the objective questions from the 2020 Neco Agricultural Science examination.
Difficulty level: Hard .
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