Cost of Transatlantic Travel A Boeing 747 crosses the Atlantic Ocean (3000 miles) with an airspeed of 500 miles per hour. The cost C (in dollars) per passenger is given by
where is the groundspeed (airspeed wind).
(a) What is the cost when the groundspeed is 480 miles per hour? 600 miles per hour?
(b) Find the domain of C.
(c) Use a graphing utility to graph the function .
(d) Create a TABLE with and .
(e) To the nearest 50 miles per hour, what groundspeed minimizes the cost per passenger?
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