A company has two factories, factory A and factory B. The cost per item to produce q items in factory A is 200 + 3q q . The cost
per item to produce q items in factory B is 400 + q 3q . Find an expression for the sum of these costs per item. Then divide this expression by 2 to find an expression for the average cost per item to produce q items in each factory.
The question is basically asking you to calculate the new volume of the box that is 12x 7.5 x 2.5inches and to see if it has a larger volume than 162.5 sqin.
If you calculate the volume you should get 225 square inches.
