SOLUTION: How would you write a function that represents the profit, using the revenue and cost functions? Info: Carol Coffmon owns a store where she sells birdhouses. The revenue from b

Question 1036808: How would you write a function that represents the profit, using the revenue and cost functions?
Info: Carol Coffmon owns a store where she sells birdhouses. The revenue from birdhouse sales is given by The cost of making birdhouses is given by Her profit is the revenue minus the cost or So the profit function can be defined as

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Return your attention to the separate functions.

Understand very well what function notation looks like and means.

Changing from to is wrong. Substitute the definition for the two functions and simplify that expression.

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You have the symbolized definitions for the functions r(x) and c(x). SUBSTITUTE THEM in the expression for p(x).
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