Mary has an apartment over her garage that she plans to rent. Mary spent $300 getting the apartment ready for guests, and it will cost Mary $18 a night for utilities.
Mary plans to charge $70 a night to rent for the apartment. The cost and revenue
functions can be written as:
C(x) = 15x + 500,
and the Revenue function can be written as:
R(x) = 75x,
where x is the number of nights the apartment is rented.
Complete this table and estimate between what two inputs (x) will Mary break even.
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x (nights)
C (dollars)
R (dollars)