4$ would be the cost of the item
The answer is -148≤ F≤ -103!
Take the homogeneous part and find the roots to the characteristic equation:

This means the characteristic solution is

.
Since the characteristic solution already contains both functions on the RHS of the ODE, you could try finding a solution via the method of undetermined coefficients of the form

. Finding the second derivative involves quite a few applications of the product rule, so I'll resort to a different method via variation of parameters.
With

and

, you're looking for a particular solution of the form

. The functions

satisfy


where

is the Wronskian determinant of the two characteristic solutions.

So you have




So you end up with a solution

but since

is already accounted for in the characteristic solution, the particular solution is then

so that the general solution is
Ok, if you decrease <span>£2500 by 1% you get 99% remaining
</span>So
99% of £2500 = 0.99 x £2500 = <span>£2475</span>