SOLUTION: Student council is selling chocolate bars as a fundraiser. The revenue R, in thousands of dollars, can be modeled by the function R = -25x^2 + 100x + 1500, where x is the number of

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Question 1032508: Student council is selling chocolate bars as a fundraiser. The revenue R, in thousands of dollars, can be modeled by the function R = -25x^2 + 100x + 1500, where x is the number of chocolate bars sold in hundreds. How many cases must the student council sell to maximize their revenue?
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Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source):
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Student council is selling chocolate bars as a fundraiser. The revenue R, in thousands of dollars, can be modeled by
the function R = -25x^2 + 100x + 1500, where x is the number of chocolate bars sold in hundreds.
How many cases must the student council sell to maximize their revenue?
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R(x) = = = .

The function R(x) has the maximum equal to 1600 at x = 2.

Answer by Newb(4)   (Show Source):
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Answer by MathTherapy(10552)   (Show Source):
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Student council is selling chocolate bars as a fundraiser. The revenue R, in thousands of dollars, can be modelled by the function R = -25^2 + 100x + 1500, where x is the number of chocolate bars sold in hundreds. How many cases must the student council sell to maximize their revenue?
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Maximum profit occurs when , which is: . Don't know about CASES because you never stated number of bars in each case.