SOLUTION: The total cost(in dollars) for a company to manufacture and sell x items per week is C=60x+300, where as the revenue brought in selling all x items is R=100x-0.5x^2 . How many item
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Question 452984: The total cost(in dollars) for a company to manufacture and sell x items per week is C=60x+300, where as the revenue brought in selling all x items is R=100x-0.5x^2 . How many items must be sold to obtain a weekly profit of $300?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Profit is (revenue - cost)
and, using the negative root
Selling either 20 or 60 items per week will
give a profit of $300
Here's a graph of solutions and the profit curve: