Select the correct answer. An entrepreneur estimates his total profit (total revenue minus total cost) for his proposed company as p(x) = x3 â’ 4x2 5x â’ 20, where p is in hundreds of dollars and x is number of years the company has been in business. In which year (x) will the entrepreneur break even? A. Year 1 B. Year 2 C. Year 3 D. Year 4.

Varto company has 9,400 units of its sole product in inventory that it produced last year at a cost of $23 each. this year’s model is superior to last year’s, and the 9,400 units cannot be sold at last year’s regular selling price of $42 each. varto has two alternatives for these items: (1) they can be sold to a wholesaler for $8 each, or (2) they can be reworked at a cost of $251,100 and then sold for $34 each. prepare an analysis to determine whether varto should sell the products as is or rework them and then sell them.