The profits of a company are found by subtracting the company's
costs from its revenue. If a company's cost can be modeled by
14x + 120,000 and its revenue can be modeled by 40x - 0.0002x2,
what is an expression for the profit?

Question

The profits of a company are found by subtracting the company's
    costs from its revenue. If a company's cost can be modeled by
    14x + 120,000 and its revenue can be modeled by 40x - 0.0002x2,
    what is an expression for the profit?

anonymous · Answer

check the equations here are you sure they are right? second doesn't make sense

anonymous · Answer

oops sorry the second one is 40x - 0.0002x^2

anonymous · Answer

ok cool so what we have to do is is subtract the costs from revenue:
profits: (40x - 0.0002x^2) - (14x + 120,000)
remember what i just taught you? do the same thing here

anonymous · Answer

okay hold on lol let me work out the problem

anonymous · Answer

okay so i tried plugging that in to find the answer and it says its incomplete @twistnflip

anonymous · Answer

thats because you can't:
profits = 40x - 0.0002x^2 - 14x - 120,000
profits = -0.0002x^2 + 26x -120,000 <--