Here is our profit as a function of # of posters
p(x) =-10x² + 200x - 250
Here is our price per poster, as a function of the # of posters:
pr(x) = 20 - x
Since we want to find the optimum price and # of posters, let's plug our price function into our profit function, to find the optimum x, and then use that to find the optimum price:
p(x) = -10 (20-x)² + 200 (20 - x) - 250
p(x) = -10 (400 -40x + x²) + 4000 - 200x - 250
Take a look at our profit function. It is a normal trinomial square, with a negative sign on the squared term. This means the curve is a downward facing parabola, so our profit maximum will be the top of the curve.
By taking the derivative, we can find where p'(x) = 0 (where the slope of p(x) equals 0), to see where the top of profit function is.
p(x) = -4000 +400x -10x² + 4000 -200x -250
p'(x) = 400 - 20x -200
0 = 200 - 20x
20x = 200
x = 10
p'(x) = 0 at x=10. This is the peak of our profit function. To find the price per poster, plug x=10 into our price function:
price = 20 - x
price = 10
Now plug x=10 into our original profit function in order to find our maximum profit:
<span>p(x)= -10x^2 +200x -250
p(x) = -10 (10)</span>² +200 (10) - 250
<span>p(x) = -1000 + 2000 - 250
p(x) = 750
Correct answer is C)</span>
Answer:
The equation is 
Step-by-step explanation:
If we want a line parallel to the line in the problem it will have the same slope. The equation given in the problem is already in slope intercept form so we can take the slope for the new equation directly from this equation.
The slope-intercept form of a linear equation is: 
Where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept value.
Therefore the slope is
We can now use the point-slope formula to write the equation of the parallel line:
The point-slope formula states:
Where m is the slope and 
is a point the line passes through.
Substituting the information from the problem gives:
Or, we can solve for y to put the equation in slope-intercept form:
Since x is the length, then x+7 has to be the width.
The area of a rectangle can be found via the formula :
A = length * width
So if we replace the area with the given number (170) and the length, and width, with what we assumed, we get..
170 = x * (x+7)
[which is.. ]
170 = x^2 +7x
0 = x^2 +7x - 170
And that is the answer.
