document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=529762>Question 529762</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> An advertising company charges  $150,000 each time a 30-second commercial is aired. The cost (in thousands of dollars) to produce the commercial and air it x times is given by the function C(x)0 = 150 + 300\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Graph the function.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I don't get how i graph the equation. <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The way you wrote the function, I don't blame you.  <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large C(x)0\ =\ 150\ +\ 300\"> is nonsense in the context of your problem.  You really mean:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ C(x)\ =\ 150x\ +\ 300\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Leave the scale of your <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\"> coordinates alone, but compress the <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large y\"> axis so that, presuming your <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\"> axis has a maximum of 10, your <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large y\"> axis has a maximum of about 2000.  Furthermore make sure your <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large y\"> axis is labeled \"$1000s\" and is marked as the <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large C(x)\"> axis.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Next pick a positive integer for <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\"> and substitute it for <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\"> in your function.  Do the arithmetic to determine the value of <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large C(x)\"> for the <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\"> value you selected.  Create the ordered pair <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large \left(x,\,C(x)\right)\"> and plot the point.  Repeat for another positive integer value for <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\">.  Draw a straight line through your two points.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\"><BR>\n" );
document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it<BR>\n" );
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