You decide to begin selling at the local . Your cost for each is $ plus you have to pay a fixed weekly fee of $ for the booth. Your plan is to sell each for $.
To help with planning, you come up with the following functions.- The total costs for the week is $ per item plus the weekly rent of $.
C(n)=n+
- The amount of revenue for the week is $ times the number of items sold.
R(n)=n
- Your profit for the week is the amount of revenue minus the cost of business.
P(n)=R(n)−C(n)=n−
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Use the function for profit P(n) to complete the table below. This will give you an idea of how much you can earn selling n .
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This should be looking pretty good. But the owners of the inform you that you will have to pay a "self employed income tax" on your earnings of 12%. When you take this into account, you determine your Income is actually your Profit - 12% of your Profit or a better way to state it is that your Income is 88% of your profit. This can be written as the function
I(p)=0.88p
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Use the function for Income I(p) to complete the table below. This will give you an idea of how much your income is if your profit is p
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After taking everything into consideration, you decide you need to have a function that tells you your Income if you sell n . Your Profit you make is $ per sold minus $. Your Income is 88% of your Profit. So your function is:
I(P(n))=0.88⋅P(n)=0.88(n−)
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Use your function for Income I(P(n)) to complete the table below. This will give you an idea of how much your income is if you sell n .
n | 500 | 1000 | 1500 | 2000 | 2500 | I(P(n)) | | | | | |
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