Advanced Engineering Mathematics
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Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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The demand for your college newspaper is 1800 copies per week if the paper is given a way free of charge, and the demand drops to 900 if the charge is $0.10 per copy. However, the university is prepared to supply only 700 copies per week free of charge but will supply 950 per week at $0.25 per copy. At what price should the college newspapers be sold so that there is neither a surplus nor a shortage of papers?
a.$0.11
b.$0.17
c.$0.22
d.$0.06
e.$0.07
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