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Re: Assigning (really dumb question)

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• Subject: [mg60999] Re: [mg60988] Assigning (really dumb question)
• From: Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 03:37:44 -0400 (EDT)
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• Reply-to: Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson at gmail.com>
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Try leaving off the q ->

On 10/6/05, vjp2.at at at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com
<vjp2.at at at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com> wrote:
> What the heck am I doing wrong? I've been away from Mathematica for a while.
>
> I can't get it to evaluate the expressions at the solved values.
>
> I feel so stupid.
>
> r[q_] := 1800 q - .006 q^2
> c[q_] := 12100000 + 800 q + .004 q ^2
>
> qa = Solve[ D[ r[q]-c[q] , q] == 0, q]
> r[q] /. q -> qa
> c[q] /. q -> qa
> r[q]-c[q] /. q -> qa
> D[r[q],q] /. q -> qa
> D[c[q],q] /. q -> qa
>
> qm = Solve[ c[q]/q - D[c[q] , q] == 0, q] [[2]]
> r[qm] /. q -> qm
> c[qm] /. q -> qm
> r[qm]-c[qm] /. q -> qm
> D[r[q],q] /. q -> qm
> D[c[q],q] /. q -> qm
>
>
> (PS, a while back I was asking how to fix DOS 2.2.2 when it wasn't
> doing graphics and I was told it was no longer supported. Well, 2yrs
> later, dumbo me, realised I just had to cd into the math directory and
> all was fine.)
>
>
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