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= Cross-disciplinary Connections =



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 * In your assigned sales teams, use the information below to make recommendations for your company, predict sales trends and determine the most cost effective strategy for marketing a new video game.**

Group members form the sales team for a company that makes computer video games. It has been determined that the rational function //f(x)= 200x / x2+100//models the monthly sales, //f(x)//, in thousands of games, of a new video game as a function of the number of months, //x//, after the game is introduced.

What are the team’s recommendations to the company in terms of how long the video game should be on the market before another new video game is introduced? What other factors might members want to take into account in terms of the recommendations? What will eventually happen to sales and how is this indicated by the graph of the function? What does this have to do with a horizontal asymptote? What could the company do to change the behavior of this function and continue generating sales? Would this be cost effective?

Use the page assigned for your group to prepare your presentation.