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Renting Motel Rooms You own a motel with 30 rooms, and you have a pricing structure that encourages rentals of rooms in groups. One room rents for $85, two rent for $83 each, and in general the group rate per room is found by taking $2 off the base of $85 for each extra room rented.
a. How much money do you take in if a family rents two rooms?
b. Use a formula to give the rate you charge for each room if you rent n rooms to an organization.
c. Find a formula for a function
d. What is the most money you can make from rental to a single group? How many rooms do you rent?
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