A company making solar panels spends x dollars on materials, and the revenue from the sale of

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A company making solar panels spends x dollars on materials, and the revenue from the sale of the solar panels is f(x) dollars.
(a) What does the statement f'(80,000) = 2 mean in practical terms? How about f'(80,000) = 0.5?
(b) Suppose the company plans to spend about $80,000 on materials. If f'(80,000) = 2, should the company spend more than $80,000 on materials? What if f'(100) = 0.5?

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Applied Calculus

ISBN: 9781119275565

6th Edition

Authors: Deborah Hughes Hallett, Patti Frazer Lock, Andrew M. Gleason, Daniel E. Flath, Sheldon P. Gordon, David O. Lomen, David Lovelock, William G. McCallum, Brad G. Osgood, Andrew Pasquale

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