Homework Help: Algebra Word problem

Posted by Michelle on Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 7:54pm.

Suppose you are an event coordinator for a large performance theater. One of the hottest new Broadway musicals has started to tour, and your city is the first stop on the tour. You need to supply information about projected ticket sales to the box office manager. The box office manager uses this information to anticipate staffing needs until the tickets sell out. You provide the manager with a quadratic equation that models the expected number of ticket sales for each day x. ( is the day tickets go on sale).

a. Does the graph of this equation open up or down? How did you determine this?

b. Describe what happens to the tickets sales as time passes?

c. Use the quadratic equation to determine the last day that tickets will be sold. (Note: Write your answer in terms of the number of days after ticket sales begin.)

d. Will tickets peak or be at a low during the middle of the sale? How do you know?

e. After how many days will the peak or low occur?

f. How many tickets will be sold on the day when the peak or low occurs?

g. What is the point of the vertex? How does this number relate to your answers in parts e and f?

Algebra Word problem - Angel, Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 8:39pm
ans:

a) if this is a parabola it would open down.

b) since tickets sales would go up because of "hotness" of the show, but eventually it would go down.

c)I cannot explain since no equation was given to me

d) Peak; the parabola has a maximum point(since it opens down)

e) again I cannot give you this since no equation was given

f) same as e

g)Give me the equation and I shall explain and give the answer
Algebra Word problem - ME, Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 12:13am
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