Concessionaires. A baseball club pays a vendor 125 dollars per game for selling bags of peanuts for 4.75 dollars each. a. Write a linear function that describes the profit the vendor makes for the baseball club during a game if she sells $b$ bags of peanuts. b. Find the profit the baseball club will make if the vendor sells 110 bags of peanuts during a game.
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We need to find the profit function. The profit is the revenue minus the cost. The revenue is the number of bags sold times the price per bag, and the cost is the fixed payment to the vendor. So, the profit function is: $P(b) = 4.75b - 125$ b. Show more…
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