SOLUTION: A company has 50 customers paying ₱650 each month. If each ₱50 decrease in price attracts 10 additional customers, find the approximate price that yields maximum revenue and

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Question 1188855: A company has 50 customers paying ₱650 each month. If each ₱50 decrease in price attracts 10 additional customers, find the approximate price that yields maximum revenue and the possible maximum revenue for the company.
Answer by Solver92311(821)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The revenue is found by multiplying the number of customers by the price per customer. Both the number of customers and the price per customer can be expressed as functions of the number of $50 price decreases.

Let represent the number of incremental $50 price decreases.

Then represents the price per customer as a function of $50 price decreases.

And represents the number of customers as a function of $50 price decreases.

Note that the domain of these functions is a subset of the integers where the lower bound is zero because you are not given information about the effect of a price increase, and an upper bound of 12 because it would be ludicrous to consider the company either giving away their product or services for nothing or even worse, paying people to take their product.

Then the revenue as a function of incremental price decreases is given by:







The vertex of this convex-down parabola that represents the maximum value of the function and therefore the maximum revenue is located at . Hence the maximum revenue is obtained when the number of price reductions is 4.

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John

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