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A company sells widgets. The amount of profit, y, made by the company, is related to the selling price of each widget, x, by the given equation. Using this equation, find out what price the widgets should be sold for, to the nearest cent, for the company to make the maximum profit. Y=-44x^2+1375x-6548

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Answer from: kayranicole1

The selling price of each widget is 15.63 cents.

Step-by-step explanation:

A quadratic function or function of the second degree is a polynomial function of the form:

f(x)= a*x² + b*x + c; or y=a*x² + b*x + c

The maximums and minimums in a function f are the largest (maximum) or smallest (minimum) values or extremes that the function takes. The vertex is a point that is part of the parabola that coincides with the maximum or minimum of the function:

if a is greater than 0, being positive, the vertex of the parabola is at the bottom of it, being a minimum (that is, the parable opens "up"). if a is less than 0, being negative, the vertex is at the top, being a maximum (that is, the parabola opens "down").

In this case you know that the amount of profit, y, made by the company is related to the selling price of each widget, x, by:

y= -44*x²+1375*x-6548

In this case, comparing with the form of the quadratic function:

a= -44b= 1375c= -6548

So, since the value of a is less than zero, the vertex will be the maximum of the function. Therefore, the vertex will indicate the price at which the devices should be sold for the company to obtain the maximum profit.

The value of the vertex on the abscissa axis (the x-axis) is:

$x=\frac{-b}{2*a}$

In this case:

$x=\frac{-1375}{2*(-44)}$

$x=\frac{-1375}{-88}$

x= 15.63

Since x represents the selling price of each widget, then this will be 15.63 cents.

Answer from: Quest

arithmetic sequence

step-by-step explanation:

given that a sequence has terms as

19, 15, 11,

this is represented on a graph

the pattern indicates that the sequence is an arithmetic sequence with i term

a=19 and common difference d =-4

any general term

$a_{n}=a+(n-1)d\\ =19-5(n-1)\\=24-5n$

thus the sequence is reduced by 4 for each successive term starting from 1 and nth term is

24-5n.

first negative term would start after 5th term

5th term =24-25< 0

from 5th term onwards the sequence would be negative.

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