Question

(a) what was the average newspaper circulation from 1986 through 2000. (round your answer to three decimal places.) 557.680 incorrect: your answer is incorrect. million newspapers (b) in what year was the newspaper circulation closest to the average circulation from 1986 through 2000? (round your answer up to the nearest integer.)

Answer 1

The year becomes 1993, when the newspaper circulation is closest to the average circulation.

Part a:

The function is n(x)=0.00792x^3−0.37x^2+3.557x+51.588

The formula for the average of the function is 1b−a∫baf(x)dx

The year 1986 corresponds to 6 and 2000 corresponds to 20 as x is the number of years since 1980.

Obtain the average:

1b−a∫baf(x)dx==≈1/20−6∫20-6[0.00792x^3−0.37x^2+3.557x+51.588]dx

1/14[0.00792x^4/4−0.37x^3/3+3.557x^2/2+51.588x]20-6

51.70094

Therefore, the average newspaper circulation from 1986 to 2000 was 51.70094.

Part b:

Now, the equation is obtained as

0.00792x^3−0.37x^2+3.557x+51.588=51.70094

0.00792x^3−0.37x^2+3.557x−0.11294=0

Obtain the value of x using an online graphing calculator as follows:

Thus, the value of x becomes 13.481

Hence, 1993 is the year of the closest average circulation

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