Problema Solution
The company also discovered that it costs $103 to produce 3 widgets, $163 to produce 7 widgets, and $328 to produce 12 widgets.
Answer provided by our tutors
The problem statement is ambiguous, no real question is being asked. We can graph linear equations from "$103 to produce 3 widgets with $328 to produce 12 widgets" along with "$103 to produce 3 widgets with $163 to produce 7 widgets" and see that the equations are not linear... not really parabolic... letting 'x' represent the number of widgets and 'y' represent the cost: