If P(x) = 8 + 7x – 10x² represents the profit in selling a thousand Boombotix speakers, how
many speakers should be sold to maximize profit?

Acollege is planning to construct a rectangular parking lot on land bordered on one side by a highway. the plan is to use 680 feet of fencing to fence off the other three sides. what dimensions should the lot have if the enclosed area is to be a maximum?

Awater truck is filling a swimming pool. the equation that represents this relationship is y=19.75x where y is the number of gallons of water in the pool and x is the number of minutes the truck has been filling the pool.

Many newspapers carry a certain puzzle in which the reader must unscramble letters to form words. how many ways can the letters of emdangl be arranged? identify the correct unscrambling, then determine the probability of getting that result by randomly selecting one arrangement of the given letters.