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In Exercise 10 of the Chapter 2 Review, we found that the relationship between price and d...

In Exercise 10 of the Chapter 2 Review, we found that the relationship between price and demand (number of items sold) for Pomelia’s decorative lawn sprinkler business was given by p(x) =–1.25x + 85, where x was the number of items sold and p was the price per item. Since revenue (the money resulting from sales) is found by the product

(number of items) × (price per item) = x× p(x),

we see that the revenue is a quadratic function of the number of items sold.

a. Find a quadratic function R(x) giving revenue as a function of x, the number of sprinklers sold per month.


r (seconds)

0.6

0.7

0.8

0.9

1.0

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

H (feet)

3.0213

4.0944

4.8326

 

5.2575

5.3764

5.1675

4.6634

3.8603

2.7728

b. How many sprinklers must be sold in order to maximize monthly revenue?


c. What is the maximum monthly revenue?

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