Maximum Revenue When a management training company prices its seminar on management techniques at $400 per person, 1,000 people will attend the seminar. The company estimates that for each $5 reduction in price, an additional 20 people will attend the seminar. Let x represent the number of $5 reductions. Use this information to answer questions 1-8 below. Use the Maximum Revenue information above to answer this question. • 400 – 5æ [Select] [Select] • 1000+20x revenue number of seminar tickets sold price per seminar ticket

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2) We need to maximize ▭, which is the price per seminar ticket times the number of seminar tickets sold.

3) Since price cannot be negative, we have x ≤___________

4) A negative value of x would result in a price increase. 

Since the problem is stated in terms of price reductions, we must restrict x so that x ≥ _____.

 
Maximum Revenue
When a management training company prices its seminar on
management techniques at $400 per person, 1,000 people will
attend the seminar. The company estimates that for each $5
reduction in price, an additional 20 people will attend the seminar.
Let x represent the number of $5 reductions.
Use this information to answer questions 1-8 below.
Transcribed Image Text:Maximum Revenue When a management training company prices its seminar on management techniques at $400 per person, 1,000 people will attend the seminar. The company estimates that for each $5 reduction in price, an additional 20 people will attend the seminar. Let x represent the number of $5 reductions. Use this information to answer questions 1-8 below.
Use the Maximum Revenue information above to answer this
question.
• 400 – 5æ
[Select]
[Select]
•
1000+20x
revenue
number of seminar tickets sold
price per seminar ticket
Transcribed Image Text:Use the Maximum Revenue information above to answer this question. • 400 – 5æ [Select] [Select] • 1000+20x revenue number of seminar tickets sold price per seminar ticket
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