Question

PLEASE HELP*** The profit for a company is given by the equation P(x)=-0.0002x^2 + 140x - 250,000 where x is the number of units produced. What production level will yield a maximum profit?

Answer 1

find the vertex of the parabola. the x coordinate of the vertex is achieved by the equation (-b/2a) you plug that in back and get the y coordinate, which is the maximum val

Answer 2

For the vertex, I got (350000, 24300000). So would the answer be B?

Answer 3

Yes, assuming your calculations were done correctly.