The profits of L'Hopital can be represented by the function f(x)=-3x²+18x-4, where y is the amount of profit in millions of dollars and x is the number of years of operation. Maggie L'Hopital the ceo of the company realizes her company is on the downturn and wishes to sell it before the company starts losing money. To find out when that will happen she graphed the function in the coordinate plane using an online graphing calculator. Then she found the axis of symmetry the y intercept the x intercepts and the coordinate of the vertex of the graph of the function.

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anonymous · Answer

Re-create her work and answer the following questions 
A. When will L'Hopital corporation show the maximum profit?
B. What is the maximum profit?
C. At what time will the company start incurring loses? Explain.

vocaloid · Answer

well, our first step is to graph the function, did you do that?

anonymous · Answer

No can please show us how to graph it