6.1 Introduction

Now we have built up some mathematical tools that can help us make business decisions. We are going to introduce you to using those tools to visualize functions and to find the maximum or minimum of those functions. When you want to optimize revenue, cost, profit, production, and so on, you will know what you are doing mathematically. In addition, even though it might make more sense after you have taken multiple additional math courses, we are going to learn how to optimize functions with constraints in input variables.