Problema Solution

Suppose you are an event coordinator for a large performance theater. One of the hottest new Broadway musicals has started to tour and your city is the first stop on the tour. You need to supply information about projected ticket sales to the box office manager. The box office manager uses this information to anticipate staffing needs until the tickets sell out. You provide the manager with a quadratic equation that models the expected number of ticket sales for each day x. (x=1 is the day tickets go on sale). tickets= -0.2^2+12x+11 Use the quadratic equation to determine the last day the tickets will be sold. Note: Write your answer in terms of the number of days after ticket sales begin.

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we solve using quadratic equation

and get

x = -0.90, 60.90

rejecting negative

we get x = 60.90 as the answer  which is last day when ticket will be sold.

rounded to 61