A cellphone manufacturing company uses the profit function P(x) = -0.09x^2 + 5,000x – 750,000 to
find out how much profit they will make given x number of phones are manufactured.
a) What is the degree and the leading coefficient of the given function?
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Answer:
degree:2
leading coefficient:0.09x²
Step-by-step explanation:
The leading term is the term with the highest power, and its coefficient is called the leading coefficient.
The highest power of the variable that occurs in the polynomial is called the degree of a polynomial.