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4.2 Exercise 7

Avg difficulty 2.5

A company sells doughnuts. They incur a fixed cost of $25,000 for rent, insurance, and other expenses. It costs $0.25 to produce each doughnut.

ⓐ Write a linear model to represent the cost CC of the company as a function of x, x , the number of doughnuts produced.
ⓑ Find and interpret the y-intercept.

OpenStax Algebra and Trigonometry 2e, 4.2 Modeling with Linear Functions, exercise 7

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