On a tropical island there are 100 potential boat builders, numbered 1 through 1

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On a tropical island there are 100 potential boat builders, numbered 1 through 100. Each can build up to20 boats a year, but anyone who goes into the boatbuilding business has to pay a fixed cost of $19. Marginal costs differ from person to person. Where y denotes the number of boats built per year, boat builder 1 has a total cost function c(y) = 19 + y. Boat builder 2 has a total cost function c(y) = 19 + 2y, and more generally, for each i, from 1 to 100, boat builder i has a cost function c(y) = 19 + iy. If the price of boats is 25,how many boats will be built per year?

please explain your answer step by step.

Explanation / Answer

Any number between 500 and 520 is possible

answer is 480

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