Mary repairs microwaves. her revenue is modeled by the function r(h)=20+30h for every h hours she spends repairing microwaves. her overhead cost is modeled by the function c(h)=10h2−80 . after how many hours does she break even?

The correct answer is:
5 hours.
Explanation:
To find the break-even point, we set the two functions equal to each other:
20+30h = 10h²-80
Since this is a quadratic equation, we want it set equal to 0 to solve. First we will subtract 20 from each side:
20+30h-20 = 10h²-80-2030h = 10h²-100
Subtract 30h from each side:30h-30h = 10h²-100-30h0 = 10h²-30h-100
We will use the quadratic formula to solve this:
[tex] x=\frac{-b\pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a} [/tex]
Instead of x, we have h. Our values for a, b and c are:a = 10b = -30c = -100
This gives us:[tex] h=\frac{--30\pm \sqrt{(-30)^2-4(10)(-100)}}{2(10)}
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\\=\frac{30\pm \sqrt{900--4000}}{20}
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\\=\frac{30\pm \sqrt{900+4000}}{20}
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\\=\frac{30\pm \sqrt{4900}}{20}
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\\=\frac{30\pm 70}{20}=\frac{30-70}{20}\text{ or }\frac{30+70}{20}
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\\=\frac{-40}{20}\text{ or }\frac{100}{20}=-2\text{ or }5 [/tex]
Since a negative number of time makes no sense, we use h = 5.