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Advertising Costs A company that produces digital audio players estimates that the profit for selling a particular model is
where P is the profit in dollars and x is the advertising expense in 10,000s of dollars (see figure). Use Newton's Method to approximate the smaller of two advertising amounts that yield a profit of $2,500,000.
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Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions
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