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Author: Barnett

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Chapter 4.6, Problem 39E

Inventory control. A publishing company sells 50,000 copies of a certain book each year. It costs the company $1 to store a book for one year. Each time that it prints additional copies, it costs the company $1,000 to set up the presses. How many books should the company produce during each printing in order to minimize its total storage and setup costs?

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Solution Summary: The author explains how a publishing company runs set up 5 times each year to produce 10,000 additional copies. They use the procedures developed in Section 4.5 to find the absolute maximum (or minimum) of f(x

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