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Rockin' Jon, a music club owner, is planning for the next annual Rockin' Jon's New Year's Eve Jamfest. He has noticed that when he charges more for tickets for the show, fewer people buy tickets. Rockin' Jon's total revenue from selling tickets for the Jamfest, in dollars, can be modeled by the expression p(576–16p), where p is the price per ticket in dollars. This expression can be written in factored form as –16p(p–36).What does the number 36 represent in the expression?

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Rockin' Jon, a music club owner, is planning for the next annual Rockin' Jon's New Year's Eve Jamfest. He has noticed that when he charges more for tickets for the show, fewer people buy tickets. Rockin' Jon's total revenue from selling tickets for the Jamfest, in dollars, can be modeled by the expression p(576–16p), where p is the price per ticket in dollars. This expression can be written in factored form as –16p(p–36).What does the number 36 represent in the expression?

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The number 36 in the expression represents the price per ticket, in dollars, at which Rockin' Jon's total revenue from selling tickets for the Jamfest would be zero. This is because when the price per ticket (p) is 36, the expression –16p(p–36) equals zero, meaning that the total revenue is zero.

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