Question

ALGERBRA!!! Help!! 20 Branly!!!

The graph below shows a company's profit f(x), in dollars, depending on the price of goods x, in dollars, being sold by the company

Part A: What do the x-intercepts and maximum value of the graph represent?

Part B: What are the intervals where the function is increasing and decreasing, and what do they represent about the sale and profit?

Part C: What is an approximate average rate of change of the graph from x = 1 to x = 3, and what does this rate represent?

Answer 1

A) intercepts: zero profit; maximum: maximum profit. increasing: x < 4; decreasing x > 4
B) average slope: ≈50, about $50 increased profit for each $1 increase in price.