Fill in the blanks. The graphs of all polynomial functions are ________, which means that the graphs have no breaks, holes, or gaps.
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REVENUE The total revenue (in millions of dollars) for a company is related to its advertising expense by the function where is the amount spent on advertising (in tens of thousands of dollars). Use the graph of this function, shown in the figure on the next page, to estimate the point on the graph at which the function is increasing most rapidly. This point is called the point of diminishing returns because any expense above this amount will yield less return per dollar invested in advertising.
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The first step in solving 3.2 problem number 104 trying to solve the problem we have to refer to the textbook question: REVENUE The total revenue (in millions of dollars) for a company is related to its advertising expense by the function where is the amount spent on advertising (in tens of thousands of dollars). Use the graph of this function, shown in the figure on the next page, to estimate the point on the graph at which the function is increasing most rapidly. This point is called the point of diminishing returns because any expense above this amount will yield less return per dollar invested in advertising.
From the textbook chapter POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS OF HIGHER DEGREE you will find a few key concepts needed to solve this.
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