Vincent has set a financial goal to purchase a home in five years. He wants a two-bedroom house with a small backyard in the north side of the city. He has $5,000 currently in his savings account. If he doesn’t deposit or withdraw any money, what type of savings account or savings bond should he choose? Keep in mind that he wants to have the most money in his account at the end of five years. Use this information and the information you have learned in the last three lessons to decide which savings option is best for Vincent. Use the PACED decision-making method and show your work.

The monthly demand equation for an electric utility company is estimated to be p equals 60 minus left parenthesis 10 superscript negative 5 baseline right parenthesis x, where p is measured in dollars and x is measured in thousands of killowatt-hours. the utility has fixed costs of $3 comma 000 comma 000 per month and variable costs of $32 per 1000 kilowatt-hours of electricity generated, so the cost function is upper c left parenthesis x right parenthesis equals 3 times 10 superscript 6 baseline plus 32 x. (a) find the value of x and the corresponding price for 1000 kilowatt-hours that maximize the utility's profit. (b) suppose that the rising fuel costs increase the utility's variable costs from $32 to $38, so its new cost function is upper c 1 left parenthesis x right parenthesis equals 3 times 10 superscript 6 baseline plus 38 x. should the utility pass all this increase of $6 per thousand kilowatt-hours on to the consumers?