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Persuade Them with More Ads

October 8, 2019From the book Change Is the Only Constant

Advertising drives up a product's price so much that no one buys it. The proposed fix: more ads. A rate of change gone wrong.

Transcript

[Graph of PRICE vs. ADS rising, labeled dp/da] "The ads make our product so expensive, no one will buy it." "Then persuade them with more ads!"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-10-08-persuade-them-with-more-ads/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Topics
Calculus › Rates of ChangeApplied Math › Economics
Level
High SchoolCalculusCollege
Themes
Money & ShoppingWork & Jobs