Question

A manufacturing company plans to progressively increase its production capacity over the next few quarters. (A quarter is a period of three months.) The increase in production can be modeled by the equation y = x6 − 25x4 + 199x2, where x is the number of quarters. What is the minimum duration required for the company to reach a production capacity of 4,975 units?

Answer 1

a

Explanation:

Answer 2

we are asked in the problem to determine the number of quarters that are needed to complete 4975 units given the equation y = x6 − 25x4 + 199x2 where y is the number of manufactured units and x is the number of quarters needed.
substituting y = 4975, we find x. x is readily found using calculator.