Farmers can get $8 per bushel for their potatoes on July 1, and after that, the price
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Farmers can get $8 per bushel for their potatoes on July 1, and after that, the price drops by 5 cents per bushel per day. On July 1, a farmer has 140 bushels of potatoes in the field and estimates that the crop is increasing at the rate of 1 bushel per day. Express the farmer’s revenue from the sale of the potatoes as a function of the time at which the crop is harvested, draw the graph, and estimate when the farmer should harvest the potatoes to maximize revenue.
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Calculus For Business, Economics And The Social And Life Sciences
ISBN: 9780073532387
11th Brief Edition
Authors: Laurence Hoffmann, Gerald Bradley, David Sobecki, Michael Price
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