Question

The projected sales volume of a video game cartridge is given by the function
s(p) = 3000/ 2p + a

s is the number of cartridges sold, in thousands; p is the price per cartridge, in dollars; and a is a constant. If according to the projections, 100000 cartridges are sold at 10 dollars per cartridge, how many cartridges will be sold at 20 dollars per cartridge?

Please help and show the work, the answer is 60,000 but i do not understand how.

Answer 1

so i believe you need to solve for a first

Answer 2

s($10)=100000

Answer 3

so s($20)=200000

Answer 4

y(x)=s(p) p is the independent variable while s is the dependent variable.

Answer 5

do you understand so far?

Answer 6

I'm sorry but I don't understand what you mean by independent and dependent.

Answer 7

So basically the amount of cartridges sold will earn you revenue.

Answer 8

difficult to explain over the site... hold on here let me try to solve this

Answer 9

ok thank you

Answer 10

hold on i can figure this out

Answer 11

i did some calculations wrong.

Answer 12

is the question word for word?

Answer 13

yes

Answer 14

and the answer is 60k huh?

Answer 15

yup

Answer 16

sorry this was taking longer than i expected I got school tomorrow and its pretty late. If you do solve it can you just post what you did and I can get back to you tomorrow?

Answer 17

okay sounds good. Let me know how you solved it when you get a chance.

Answer 18

ok thank you for trying to help!

Answer 19

wait onre more thing

Answer 20

so its 10 per 100k cartridges or 10 per cartridge

Answer 21

if it's 10 per cartridge then my #'s are off my a lot