Solver displaying wrong result?

faodavid

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Hi
Im new to solver but have it working, though Im confuse that it is giving the wrong result. On the below I have asked it to calculate min amount of tickets to be sold, as you can see why isn't it suggesting all the highest price tickets to be sold thus reducing total sales needed?

Ticketing Assumptions
Capacity Constraint 1000
Ticket SalesTypeConstraintSalesConstraintPotential
%PriceGrossNet
Earlybird20%200£8.00£1,600£1,333
1st Release30%300£12.00£3,600£3,000
2nd Release30%300£14.00£4,200£3,500
Door20%200£15.00£3,000£2,500
100%1000Total£12,400£10,333
GOAL 1BREAK EVEN ON TICKET SALES ONLY£5,227
GOAL 2BREAK EVEN ON EVENT
AVAIL TO SELLNETTO SELLLEFTGROSSNET
Earlybird200£1,33381119£644£537
1st Release300£3,000121179£1,450£1,208
2nd Release300£3,500141159£1,973£1,644
Door200£2,50015149£2,265£1,888
TOTAL NET£10,333493
£5,277
<colgroup><col width="80" style="width: 60pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3413;"> <col width="193" style="width: 145pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 8234;"> <col width="71" style="width: 53pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3029;"> <col width="38" style="width: 29pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 1621;"> <col width="71" style="width: 53pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3029;"> <col width="46" style="width: 35pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 1962;"> <col width="53" style="width: 40pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 2261;"> <col width="55" style="width: 41pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 2346;"> <col width="61" style="width: 46pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 2602;"> <tbody> </tbody>
 

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