The marketing research department for a computer company used a large city to test market of their new product.  They found that the relationship between price p (dollars per unit) and the demand x (units per week) was approximated by p=4500-0.15x^2 for 0

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The marketing research department for a computer company used a large city to test market of their new product.  They found that the relationship between price p (dollars per unit) and the demand x (units per week) was approximated by p=4500-0.15x^2 for 0<x<170

a) find the local extreme for the revenue function

B) over which intervals is the graph of the revenue function concave upward and downward

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