A Restaurant Mixes Ground Beef That Costs $B Per Pound

Multiple Choice

A restaurant mixes ground beef that costs $b per pound with pork sausage that costs $p per pound to make a meat mixture that is used on the restaurant's signature pizza. The quarterly revenue, in thousands of dollars, from the sale of this pizza is given by the equation To the nearest thousand dollars, what is the maximum quarterly revenue from the sale of the restaurant's signature pizza?

A) 55 thousand dollars
B) 47 thousand dollars
C) 8 thousand dollars
D) 36 thousand dollars
E) 28 thousand dollars