Problem 1

A furniture manufacturer knows from experience that the cost of payroll and maintenance to run your shop s hours is a function of number of hours, s. The shape of the cost function in dollars and time in hours, C (s), determined by the manufacturer is:

C (s) = piecewise (s <16 and 0 <s,-s 3 +24 * ** ** 2 +20,16 s <= s, s * 20 +1748);

a) Define a function arrow that represents the cost of the manufacturer as a function of the operating...