When you golf, you receive 18 units of pleasure from the first hole and on each hole thereafter your pleasure drops by one unit, so that the 2nd hole gives you 17 units of pleasure etc. If you play 5 holes and the rain hits so that you quit playing, what is the total pleasure, the average pleasure, and the marginal pleasure experienced at the last hole played?

I have some direction from the professor based of examples from his notes but I am not getting this right. This is what I have so far and then I am supposed to graph it. It is totally wrong though.

X = 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Total= 0 18 17 16 15 14 0
Marginal= 18 1 1 1 1 14

I think I am in your class I got the same answers..

Never mind you took it last semester. Whats the answer then?!

To calculate the total pleasure, you need to sum the units of pleasure received on each hole. However, in this case, you quit playing after 5 holes due to rain, so the total pleasure will be the sum of the units of pleasure on these 5 holes only.

Let's break down the calculation step by step:

1. First hole: You receive 18 units of pleasure.
2. Second hole: You receive 17 units of pleasure.
3. Third hole: You receive 16 units of pleasure.
4. Fourth hole: You receive 15 units of pleasure.
5. Fifth hole: You receive 14 units of pleasure.

Now add up these numbers: 18 + 17 + 16 + 15 + 14 = 80

So the total pleasure for the 5 holes you played is 80 units.

To find the average pleasure, you divide the total pleasure by the number of holes played. In this case, the number of holes played is 5.

Average pleasure = Total pleasure / Number of holes played
Average pleasure = 80 / 5 = 16

Therefore, the average pleasure for these 5 holes is 16 units.

To determine the marginal pleasure experienced at the last hole played, you need to find the difference between the pleasure on the last hole and the pleasure on the previous hole.

In this case, the pleasure on the last hole played (fifth hole) is 14. The previous hole is the fourth hole, where you received 15 units of pleasure.

Marginal pleasure = Pleasure on last hole - Pleasure on previous hole
Marginal pleasure = 14 - 15 = -1

Therefore, the marginal pleasure experienced at the last hole played is -1 unit.

Apologies, but it seems there may have been a mistake in your attempted calculations. To graph the pleasure function, you would plot the number of holes (X-axis) against the corresponding pleasure values (Y-axis). However, in this case, since you quit playing after 5 holes in the rain, you would only have data points for the first 5 holes. The X-axis would range from 1 to 5, and the Y-axis would represent the corresponding pleasure values for each hole.