19 Nov 2021
Problem 45a
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Section 4.6: Optimization Problems
Chapter 4: Applications of Differentiation
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Given information
1. A baseball team plays in a stadium that holds 55,000 spectators.
2. With ticket prices at , the average attendance had been 27,000.
3. When ticket prices were lowered to , the average attendance rose to 33,000.
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
Let the demand function be defined as the following linear function :
in slope-intercept form.
Therefore we have the following sets of equations from the given information