Chapter 3.2, Problem 61E

Effect of Stocks on Total Assets of a Company After a computer software company went public, the price of one share of its stock fluctuated according to the graph in Fig1 (a). the total worth of the company depended on the value of one share and was estimated to be

$W\left(x\right)=10\frac{12+8x}{3+x}$,

Where $x$ is the value of one share (in dollars) and $W\left(x\right)$ is the total value of the company in millions of dollars. [See Fig.1 (b).]

Find the total value of the company when $t=1.5$ and $t=3.5$.

Find ${\frac{dx}{dt}|}_{t=1.5}$ and ${\frac{dx}{d{t}_{}}|}_{t=3.5}$. Give an interpretation for these values.