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BREAK-EVEN POINTS AND MAXIMIZATION
Assume that sales revenues for Continental Divide
Mining can be modeled by
where t is the number of years past 2003.
(a) Use the function to determine the year in which maximum revenue occurs and the maximum revenue it predicts.
(b) Check the result from (a) against the data in the table.
(c) Graph R(t) and the data points from the table.
(d) Write a sentence to describe how well the function fits the data.
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