Diana has available 2400 yards of fencing and wishes to enclose a rectangular area. (a) Express the area A of the rectangle as a function of the width W of the rectangle.
(b) For what value of W is the area largest?
(c) What is the maximum area?

Agreeting card company can produce a box of cards for $7.50. if the initial investment by the company was $50,000, how many boxes of cards must be produced before the average cost per box falls to $10.50?

5,600 x 10^3 = a) 560 b) 5,000,600 c) 5,600,000 d) 56,000

Suppose that the price p (in dollars) and the weekly sales x (in thousands of units) of a certain commodity satisfy the demand equation 4p cubedplusx squaredequals38 comma 400. determine the rate at which sales are changing at a time when xequals80, pequals20, and the price is falling at the rate of $.20 per week.