Multiple Choice
On a tropical island there are 100 potential boat builders, numbered 1 through 100. Each can build up to20 boats a year, but anyone who goes into the boatbuilding business has to pay a fixed cost of $19.Marginal costs differ from person to person. Where y denotes the number of boats built per year, boat builder 1 has a total cost function c(y) = 19 + y. Boat builder 2 has a total cost function c(y) = 19 + 2y, and more generally, for each i, from 1 to 100, boat builder i has a cost function c(y) = 19 + iy. If the price of boats is 25,how many boats will be built per year?
A) 480
B) 120
C) 60
D) 720
E) Any number between 500 and 520 is possible.
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