Question

CAN SOMEONE HELP ME WITH A QUESTION PLEASE????

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

Part A: What do the x-intercepts and maximum value of the graph represent? What are the intervals where the function is increasing and decreasing, and what do they represent about the sale and profit?

Answer 1

ANYBODY PLEASE HELP ME????

Answer 2

@ganeshie8 @jim_thompson5910

Answer 3

what do you have so far

Answer 4

i have Part A: The x-intercepts represent the price of the pens and the maximum value represents that maximum profit the company makes.

Answer 5

the x-intercepts are not the price of the pens

the y coordinate of each point does that job

Answer 6

the x-intercepts are where y = 0

y is the profit

so the x-intercepts represent when the profit is $0

Answer 7

but in the problem it says "depending on the price of pens x"

Answer 8

anything below the x-intercept yields negative profit

you spend more than you make here

Answer 9

x is the price of pens, yes

Answer 10

y is the profit and it depends on the price x

Answer 11

oh ok

Answer 12

so i dont get where the intervals are increasing and decreasing?

Answer 13

when x increases, when is y increasing?

or put another way...

as you go from left to right, when are you going uphill?

Answer 14

when x is at 0 and y is at 0 also?

Answer 15

where else

Answer 16

(1, 60)?

Answer 17

when does it stop going uphill

Answer 18

at the maximum point?

Answer 19

which is where

Answer 20

(3, 120)

Answer 21

so it starts increasing at (1, 60) and it starts decreasing at (3,120)

Answer 22

so the profit function is increasing when x = 0 and it does so until x gets to x = 3

afterward, the profit starts to decrease

Answer 23

btw it doesn't make sense to have x be negative because you can't have a negative price

Answer 24

yeah thats true

Answer 25

ok great i get it now i was a bit confused b4 thank you

Answer 26

you're welcome