A company tracking its profits notices that the relationship between the number of items sold, x, and the profit function, P(x), is linear. The company knows that selling 190 items results in $3520 profit and selling 240 items results in $6420 profit. a. Which two (input, output) ordered pairs correspond to the given data? b. What is the slope of the profit function? 58 (190,240), (3520, 6420) (3520,190, 6420, 240) (190,3520), (240,6420) (240,190), (6420,3520) P(x) Part 2 of 5 c. Find the profit function, P(x). Write your answer in mx + b form. = Part 3 of 5
A company tracking its profits notices that the relationship between the number of items sold, x, and the profit function, P(x), is linear. The company knows that selling 190 items results in $3520 profit and selling 240 items results in $6420 profit. a. Which two (input, output) ordered pairs correspond to the given data? b. What is the slope of the profit function? 58 (190,240), (3520, 6420) (3520,190, 6420, 240) (190,3520), (240,6420) (240,190), (6420,3520) P(x) Part 2 of 5 c. Find the profit function, P(x). Write your answer in mx + b form. = Part 3 of 5
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