The marketing research department for a company that manufactures and sells laptop computers
established the following price-demand and cost functions, respectively:
p (x) = 1,000 - 25x
C(x) = 2,150 + 250x
where p() is the wholesale price in United States dollars at which y thousand laptops can be sold and
C(x) is in thousands of dollars. The domain of both functions is, 1 < x < 10.
Formulate a revenue function (R (x), and a profit function P(x), assuming both are in
thousands of dollars.
Graph the functions C(x), R(x) and P(x) using the same cartesian plane.
Find the value of r that will produce the maximum revenue. What is the maximum revenue to
the nearest thousand dollars?
What is the wholesale price per computer (to the nearest dollar) that produces the maximum
revenue?
Find, algebraically, the break-even points.
For what values of y will a loss and a profit occur?
Find the value of y that produces the maximum profit. Find the maximum profit.
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