What happend ro the price of a product traveling on the silk road by the time it reached its final destination?

The Silk Road is the concept of a chain of roads and other means of passage from Xi'an in China to the Mediterranean Sea. Basically a way opened up for trade via land routes. It was 7000 miles long.

For the goods which were traded using the Silk road, as they traveled along their prices increased at each city, i.e. situated  along the route to its destination. This was so because as new transporters would pick up the goods and next it would be moved further from their original destination. Therefore an increase in overall price.

local max is .5

step-by-step explanation:

the local maximum is for x values between 2 and 4

it looks like the x value is 2.5 and the y value is .5