SOLUTION: A community theater sells about 150 tickets to a play each week when it charges $20 per ticket. For each $1 decrease in price, about 10 more tickets per week are sold. The theater
Question 190088: A community theater sells about 150 tickets to a play each week when it charges $20 per ticket. For each $1 decrease in price, about 10 more tickets per week are sold. The theater has fixed expenses of $1500 per week.
Write a model: write a verbal model and a quadratic function to represent the theater's weekly profit.
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What i did is this, but I am not sure if I am right:
y=(-x+20)(10x+150)-1500
y=-10x^2-150x+200x+3000-1500
y=-10x^2+50x+1500
I really don't understand how to create equations out of word problems like this. I really appreciate the help.. Thank You ! Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
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Yep, that's exactly right as long as you realize that your independent variable represents the price differential. In other words, the actual price of a ticket is 20 - x.
That means you have some restrictions on the domain of your function. For one thing, x has to be less than 20 (unless the play is so bad they have to pay people to attend) and x has to be less than 35 or they would sell zero tickets.
