so the company has an overhead of $600, usually that involves premises leasing and industrial equipment for the manufacturing of the product, that's cost. The cost to make each item is 50 cents, so if the company produces "x" items, their cost is 0.5x total.
so our cost equation C(x) = 0.5x + 600 <---- items' cost plus overhead.
the company sells the product for 85 cents, so if they sell "x" items, their total revenue or income will be 0.85x.
so our revenue equation is simply R(x) = 0.85x.
as you already know, the break-even point is when.... well, you break even, no losses but no gains either, how much you take in is the same amount that you shelled out, namely R(x) = C(x).
Answer:
Every week, the radioactivity decreases by a factor of 5
After 1 week, it goes from 5,000 to 1,000
2 weeks 1,000 / 5 =200
3 weeks 200 / 5 = 40
4 weeks 40 / 5 = 8
5 weeks 8 / 5 = 1.6
6 weeks 1.6 / 5 = 0.064
7 weeks 0.064 / 5 = 0.0128
8 weeks .0128 / 5 = 0.00256
9 weeks 0.00256 / 5 = 0.000512
10 weeks 0.000512 / 5 = 0.0001024
Step-by-step explanation:
If 
is the amount of strontium-90 present in the area in year 
, and it decays at a rate of 2.5% per year, then
Let 
be the starting amount immediately after the nuclear reactor explodes. Then
or simply
So that after 50 years, the amount of strontium-90 that remains is approximately
or about 28% of the original amount.
We can confirm this another way; recall the exponential decay formula,
where is measured in years. We're told that 2.5% of the starting amount 
decays after 1 year, so that
Then after 50 years, we have
