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A group of students plans a tour. The charge per student is $72 if 14 students go on the trip. If more than 14 students participate, the charge per student is reduced by $2 times the number of students over 14. Find the number of students that will furnish the maximum revenue. What is the maximum revenue? The number of students that will furnish the maximum revenue is. (Simplify your answer.)

          A group of students plans a tour. The charge per student is $72 if 14 students go on the trip. If more than 14 students participate, the charge per student is reduced by $2 times the number of students over 14. Find the number of students that will furnish the maximum revenue. What is the maximum revenue?
The number of students that will furnish the maximum revenue is. (Simplify your answer.)
        
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A group of students plans a tour. The charge per student is 72 if 14 students go on the trip. If more than 14 students participate, the charge per student is reduced by2 times the number of students over 14. Find the number of students that will furnish the maximum revenue. What is the maximum revenue?
The number of students that will furnish the maximum revenue is. (Simplify your answer.)

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A group of students plans a tour. The charge per student is $72 if 14 students go on the trip. If more than 14 students participate, the charge per student is reduced by $2 times the number of students over 14. Find the number of students that will furnish the maximum revenue. What is the maximum revenue? The number of students that will furnish the maximum revenue is (Simplify your answer.)
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00:01 So we're told that a tour for one person costs $49, and for each additional person on the tour, the price per person will go down by $1.
00:11 The first thing they ask us to do is to write the price per person as a function of n people.
00:19 So we have some function, p of n, and it's going to be equal to.
00:24 So the price lowers by $1 per person.
00:28 Well, we can think about this as a slope.
00:30 So this is going to be m is equal to negative 1.
00:35 So we might try to write this as a line.
00:37 So negative 1 times n.
00:40 And now we just need to figure out what our constant or our y intercept b is.
00:44 Well, we know for one person, the output should be $49.
00:49 Or otherwise, we know the point 1 .49.
00:52 So we can plug this into our equation here.
00:55 And this is going to be.
00:57 So let me go ahead and get rid of this one right here, because it looks like natural log instead of negative 1.
01:08 So now plugging in this, we would end up with 49 is equal to negative 1 plus b...
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