SOLUTION: A milk truck can hold 8,000 gallons of milk or less. The function P(g) = 1.12g models the profit, P(g), a farmer receives for each gallon, g, of milk sold. Which domain is the most

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Question 1170364: A milk truck can hold 8,000 gallons of milk or less. The function P(g) = 1.12g models the profit, P(g), a farmer receives for each gallon, g, of milk sold. Which domain is the most appropriate to describe the farmer's profit per milk truck?
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The domain is the set of values that are allowed or make sense for a particular function. Can a truck have a negative number of gallons of milk? What would happen if you tried to put 8001 gallons of milk in a milk truck?

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