SOLUTION: The average annual salary of a professional baseball player can be modeled by the function S(x)=246+64x-8.9x^2 + 0.95x^3 Where S represents the average annual salary in thousands

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Question 573938: The average annual salary of a professional baseball player can be modeled by the function
S(x)=246+64x-8.9x^2 + 0.95x^3
Where S represents the average annual salary in thousands of dollars and x is the number of years since 1982. Determine the rate at which the average salary is changing in 2005

Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Take the first derivitive (use the power rule and the sum rule).

Then, since 2005 minus 1982 is 23, evaluate

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