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1.) Find f (0), if not supplied, and then find the equation of the given linear

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Question

1.) Find f(0), if not supplied, and then find the equation of the given linear function.

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2.) The RideEm Bicycles factory can produce 140 bicycles in a day at a total cost of $10,700 and it can produce 160 bicycles in a day at a total cost of $11,600. What are the company's daily fixed costs?
$ _______________
What is the marginal cost per bicycle?
$ _______________

3.) The following table shows worldwide sales of cell phones by a certain company and their average wholesale prices in the first quarters of 2009 and 2010.

(a) Use the data to obtain a linear demand function for the company's cell phones. (Let p be the price, and let q be the demand).

Use your demand equation to predict sales if the company lowered the price further to $80.
_____________million phones

(b) Fill in the blank.

For every $1 increase in price, sales of cell phones decrease by _________ million units.

4.) The well-known romance novelist Celestine A. Lafleur (a.k.a. Bertha Snodgrass) has decided to sell the screen rights to her latest book, Henrietta's Heaving Heart, to Boxoffice Success Productions for $44,000. In addition, the contract ensures Ms. Lafleur royalties of 5% of the net profits.† Express her income I as a function of the net profit N.

Determine the net profit necessary to bring her an income of $130,000.
N = $ _________

What is her marginal income (share of each dollar of net profit)?
$ _________ per dollar of net profit

x 1 2 3 4 f(x) 9 14 19 24

Explanation / Answer

Solution 1:

f(1) = 9

f(2) = 14

f(3) = 19

f(4) = 24

Let linear relationship:

f(x) = mx + c

where m = slope = (14-9)/(2-1) => 5 {for points (1,9) and (2,14)}

f(x) = 5x + c

satisfying point (1,9)

9 = 5*1 + c

c = 4

thus f(x) = 5x + 4

f(0) = 4