The Price Per Unit of a Product Is $\mathrm { p }$

question 283

Multiple Choice

The price per unit of a product is $\mathrm { p }$ and the number of units of the product is denoted by q. The demand function for this commodity is given by $p = \frac { 4000 } { q + 60 }$ . Describe the transformations needed to obtain the graph of this function from the graph of $p = \frac { 1 } { q }$ .

• A) Shift 60 units to the left and stretch vertically by a factor of 4000.
• B) Shift up 60 units and stretch vertically by a factor of 4000.
• C) Shift 60 units to the right and stretch vertically by a factor of 4000.
• D) Shift 60 units to the left and shift up 4000 units.

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