Acompany estimates its total profit (profit = total revenue minus total cost) as
p(x) = 2x5 − 3x4 − 5x2 − 2, where p is in thousands of dollars and x is the number of years elapsed since the company was founded. how many times can the total profit become exactly zero?

What is the logarithmic function modeled by the following table? x f(x) 9 2 27 3 81 4

An automobile assembly line operation has a scheduled mean completion time, μ, of 12 minutes. the standard deviation of completion times is 1.6 minutes. it is claimed that, under new management, the mean completion time has decreased. to test this claim, a random sample of 33 completion times under new management was taken. the sample had a mean of 11.2 minutes. assume that the population is normally distributed. can we support, at the 0.05 level of significance, the claim that the mean completion time has decreased under new management? assume that the standard deviation of completion times has not changed.

Write the equations in logarithmic form 9^4=6,561