You work for a utility company that burns coal to generate electricity. The cost C (in dollars) of removing p (percent, no need to change to a decimal) amount of the smokestack pollutants is given by:C=100,000p/ 100−pThe CFO of your company has allocated $1,000,000 to reducing smokestack pollutants. What percent of the pollutants could you remove with this budget? Round to the nearest tenth of a percent. An environmentally conscious and influential politician in California is calling for the power industry to remove 100% of the pollutants from coal based power plants. Your lobbyists want to know how to address this issue with politicians before things get out of hand. How would you educate your lobbyists to respond to this politician? You should include some math in your explanation, but be sure to explain what is going on. It is important to describe the costs as the percentage gets very close to 100% as well as considering what happens if p = 100.

Here, the given function of cost is C=100000p100-p where C is the cost of removing p(in percentage)…

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Mathematics For Machine Technology

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ISBN:9781337798310

Author:Peterson, John.

Publisher:Peterson, John.

Chapter24: Percent Practical Applications

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Problem 28A: Finding Percentage, Percent, and Base in Practical Applications Solve the following problems. 28. It...

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You work for a utility company that burns coal to generate electricity. The cost C (in dollars) of removing p (percent, no need to change to a decimal) amount of the smokestack pollutants is given by:

C=100,000p/ 100−p

The CFO of your company has allocated $1,000,000 to reducing smokestack pollutants. What percent of the pollutants could you remove with this budget? Round to the nearest tenth of a percent.
An environmentally conscious and influential politician in California is calling for the power industry to remove 100% of the pollutants from coal based power plants. Your lobbyists want to know how to address this issue with politicians before things get out of hand. How would you educate your lobbyists to respond to this politician? You should include some math in your explanation, but be sure to explain what is going on. It is important to describe the costs as the percentage gets very close to 100% as well as considering what happens if p = 100.

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