document.write( "Question 1162410: The total profit made by a social club by putting on a concert is modelled by P = 950c - 9.5c^2, where P is the profit, in dollars, and c is the price of the tickets, in dollars. What ticket price would result in no profit?
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document.write( "In this problem,  \"no profit\"  means  P = 0.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So, to determine the ticket price,  you need to solve this quadratic equation\r\n" );
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document.write( "    950c - 9.5c^2 = 0.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Factor left side to get\r\n" );
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document.write( "    9.5c*(100 - c) = 0.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It has two roots  c = 0 (which corresponds to distributing the tickets for free)  and  c = 100.\r\n" );
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