This is similar to Try It #1 in the OpenStax text. A company sells doughnuts. They incur a fixed cost of $35,000 for rent, insurance, and other expenses.

It costs $0.75 to produce each doughnut.

Do not enter any commas in your answers.

a. Write a linear model to represent the cost of the company as a function of , the number of

doughnuts produced.

C (2) =

b. Find and interpret the y-intercept.

Enter your answer as a point (a, b).

y-intercept:

The y-intercept represents the cost when the number of doughnuts reaches its maximum

The y-intercept represents the maximum number of doughnuts.

the fixed initial cost when O doughnuts are produced,