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Komentáře • 48

  • @richierust4982
    @richierust4982 Před 6 lety +150

    Khan Academy flexing on us with that artwork

  • @limhicanton7807
    @limhicanton7807 Před 2 lety +12

    The only math teacher that knows how to draw

  • @sueee9525
    @sueee9525 Před 7 lety +46

    If you're looking for the question, here you go! :)
    You own a shoe factory and want to figure out how many thousands of pairs of shoes to produce in order to optimize your profit. Let x equals to thousands of pairs of shoes produced. Assume revenue as a function of x. You know a wholesaler who is willing to pay $10 per pair as for many pairs you produce. The consultants you hired had come up with the cost in a form of function of x, which is C(x) = x^3-〖6x〗^2+15x. Given the revenue and the cost, what is the profit you can obtain?

    • @grapeshott
      @grapeshott Před 5 lety

      why Price != Marginal Cost in this case?

  • @veralei7918
    @veralei7918 Před 6 lety +73

    if i hired a bunch of consultants why do i have to maximize the profit myself

    • @elon.2193
      @elon.2193 Před 6 lety +13

      Vera Lei so that you know you're not being cheated + this is VERY basic knowledge

    • @canatronYT
      @canatronYT Před 6 lety +13

      What if you weren't in the position to hire people for you and YOU had to do these calculations for someone else?

    • @lifesimulator3964
      @lifesimulator3964 Před 5 lety +5

      Vera Lei Bcuz this appeared in my calc quiz.
      We never even discussed how to do any of this at all

    • @arshmohite9881
      @arshmohite9881 Před 5 lety +1

      @@lifesimulator3964 Its on my final, so im here crying

    • @MusicalInquisit
      @MusicalInquisit Před 4 lety +2

      @@lifesimulator3964 You determine the costs based on statistical analysis. You want to basically plug-in points into a machine and try to find a function based on what you have. The beauty of statistics.

  • @jounynFM
    @jounynFM Před 9 lety +10

    @9:40 I don't know why, but I almost spit my food out laughing at this

  • @AidenK96
    @AidenK96 Před 11 lety +8

    Cool, this is similar to what I did in school this past semester, and it is very useful!

  • @wHisperis001
    @wHisperis001 Před 10 měsíci +3

    And in an actual setting how would you derive the cost function? Usually in business (furniture business) seems like more = always better

  • @timgriffin1442
    @timgriffin1442 Před 8 lety +4

    x increases from .4725 to 3.528; x decreases 3.528 to infinity. in this case, concave downwards means increase-max-decrease. it does not mean that slope is constantly decreasing. that would mean there is no critical point because the slope never flattens out.

  • @JavierBonillaC
    @JavierBonillaC Před 9 měsíci +1

    8:20 I’m an Economist and while I appreciate the math I learned and much of it points to the right intuition, there is almost never a cost function nor a production function or any of that stuff. We went into pretty heavy math with differential equations, Hessians, Jacobians and lots of stuff I don’t even remember that well, but with very little practical,use. Mot so Econometrics, which should receive a lot more emphasis.

  • @SoulGrindKnight
    @SoulGrindKnight Před 10 měsíci +1

    That shoes look fire

  • @babafemiwilliams6888
    @babafemiwilliams6888 Před 3 lety +2

    Studying for my exams lol...
    Thanks alot for the help

  • @thomasJohnz
    @thomasJohnz Před 7 lety +2

    Thanks for your insightful videos. Explained from the basics, these are very good and helpful.
    But how to find which group of videos this belongs to ? Also I am not able to find the order I should follow.

  • @FishHeadswg
    @FishHeadswg Před 11 lety +3

    I imagine the cost is the relationship between wages, equipment run-time costs, shipping, stocking, taxes, marketing, loans (if needed), and various other miscellaneous overhead expenses.
    Excel probably has a spreadsheet for it.

  • @Maggio97
    @Maggio97 Před 5 lety +3

    How do you get cost function ? Or how do you make a cost function

  • @liliapachecohazim
    @liliapachecohazim Před 6 lety +3

    what app do u use to record the screen and audio?

  • @Bill0102
    @Bill0102 Před 4 měsíci

    I'm enamored with this. I had the pleasure of reading something similar, and I was truly enamored. "The Art of Saying No: Mastering Boundaries for a Fulfilling Life" by Samuel Dawn

  • @quambomb16
    @quambomb16 Před 9 lety +1

    khan saving me yet again

    • @tracystacy3806
      @tracystacy3806 Před 4 měsíci

      🎉🎉🎉as always Khan comes through as our professor❤

  • @Teviathan
    @Teviathan Před 2 lety +2

    Can you explain the cost function and where the numbers/variables came from ?

    • @stickmanbattle997
      @stickmanbattle997 Před rokem

      The statement is given, there is no necessary statement but the profit formula must be necessary.

  • @SarinaNayeb
    @SarinaNayeb Před 8 lety +3

    where is the question?

  • @grapeshott
    @grapeshott Před 5 lety +1

    Can somebody tell why Price != Marginal Cost in this case?

  • @504age
    @504age Před 8 lety

    where 6 and 15 come from are those arbitrary numbers?

  • @MrMetacognition
    @MrMetacognition Před 11 lety

    can you explain why?

  • @fabse64
    @fabse64 Před 11 lety +1

    Your diagrams are gorgeous, have you considered teaching arts?

  • @tobiaschapinda6771
    @tobiaschapinda6771 Před 3 lety

    A Mr. Peterson wants to sell cheese.After a fixed set-up cost of $250,
    he can produce the cheese at a cost of $9 per kilogram.He is able to
    produce up to 400kg,but he plans to take advance orders and
    produce only what he can sell.His market research suggests that the
    amount he would be able to sell depends on the price in the following
    way:thea mount decreases proportionally with the price;if he
    charged $20 per kg he would not sell any,and if the cheese was free
    he would ‘sell’ the maximum 400kg that he could produce.What
    price per kilogram should the farmer set in order to maximize his
    profit?

  • @dad34089
    @dad34089 Před 11 lety +1

    dividing the profit function by x doesn't help us to find the point at which the maximum occurs . . .

    • @lifesimulator3964
      @lifesimulator3964 Před 5 lety

      dad34089 It's not dividing. It's deriving.
      It shows the slopes, which determine if the profit's increasing/decreasing.

  • @canatronYT
    @canatronYT Před 6 lety +1

    Crazy question here, but when you inverse a profit function like this and if you input an input greater than the maximum profit, you would need to sell an imaginary number of units. Isn't that just crazy? Or is that just plainly obvious and or wrong?

  • @favouraleph829
    @favouraleph829 Před 4 měsíci

    "We are now going to be rich shoe manufacturers"

  • @mohamedmohamed046
    @mohamedmohamed046 Před 11 lety

    Tom and jarre

  • @TheD2D21
    @TheD2D21 Před 4 lety +2

    How did the consultants come about the Cost function? I mean... This is just not helpful for applying in real life if you don't know how to model equations.

  • @husseinadil6290
    @husseinadil6290 Před 5 lety +1

    I think that you are only targeting business owners how have mathematical degree.

  • @fabse64
    @fabse64 Před 11 lety

    I'm pretty sure that was just a random function Sal made up.

  • @Akash-vo8qp
    @Akash-vo8qp Před 3 lety

    Making the most profit for -ve x values, check the graph 😂😂😂

  • @muhamadrezky9292
    @muhamadrezky9292 Před 2 lety +1

    Tolong dong terjemahkan ke bahasa Indonesia 😭

  • @dirac17
    @dirac17 Před 11 lety +1

    My uncle owns a shoe factory.

    • @lifesimulator3964
      @lifesimulator3964 Před 5 lety +1

      dirac17 There was also a shoe factory in Valenzuela, Philippines.
      It burned down.
      300 people were trapped inside.
      Burned alive.
      Very painful death...