Cost-benefit the percent p of particulate pollution that can be removed from the smokestacks of an industrial plant by spending C dollars is given by (a) Find any C-values at which the rate of change of p with respect to C does not exist. Make sure that these make sense in the problem. (b) Find C-values for which p is increasing. (c) If there is a horizontal asymptote, find it. (d) Can 100% of the pollution be removed?

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Cost-benefit the percent p of particulate pollution that can be removed from the smokestacks of an industrial plant by spending C dollars is given by

(a) Find any C-values at which the rate of change of p with respect to C does not exist. Make sure that these make sense in the problem.

(b) Find C-values for which p is increasing.

(c) If there is a horizontal asymptote, find it.

(d) Can 100% of the pollution be removed?

 

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