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Difficulties Associated with Modeling

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After contacting all of the professionals, you set up a "blog" (weblog) for you and them to share. You'll use this "blog" as the weeks go by to ask the group questions, raise issues for discussion and encourage networking among this diverse group.

You decide to start your article with a math example that the readers can understand. Describe a real world situation that could be modeled by a function that is increasing, then constant, then decreasing. What would be the difficulties associated with modeling this situation?

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The solution includes an example of a "real-world" situation that can be modeled by a function that is increasing, constant, then decreasing and a discussion of the difficulties involved in such a model.

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