Discuss the concavity of the graph of the function by determining the open intervals on which the graph is concave upward or downward.
f(x) = −
1
3
x3 − 9x2 − 7x − 9

Given the choice between receiving $1.000.000 in one month or a single penny-doubled everyday for the period of one month; which option would you choice? show your work to support your answer. (assume that 1 month=30 days)

What is the range of the function? f(x)=-2|x+1|? a. all real numbers. b. all real numbers less than or equal to 0. c. all real numbers less than or equal to 1. d. all real numbers greater than or equal to 1

The coverage of a base station of a telecommunication company forms a disk with a radius of (kilometers). let be the distance of a cellphone from a base station. assume that the location of cellphones in use are randomly uniformly distributed within the disk. calculate the mean and variance for the random variable.