Arental car company charges a flat fee of $50, plus 20 cents a mile. find the cost of renting a car from this company and traveling 340 miles.

To solve this problem, we are going to set up an equation in slope-intercept form. The y-intercept is modeled by the flat fee of $50, which is the baseline price with zero miles traveled. The slope, or rate of change, is 0.20, or 20 cents, which represents the increase in price per mile (each mile is represented by the value x). The independent variable or x value is the number of miles while the dependent variable or y value is the cost (which depends on how many miles you travel). This equation is modeled below:

y = 0.20x + 50

If you are traveling 340 miles, we should substitute this value in for the respective variable, x.

y = 0.20(340) + 50

Next we should simplify by multiplication and addition.

y = 68 + 50

y = 118

Therefore, the cost of renting a car from this company and traveling 340 miles is $118.

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step-by-step explanation

e2020 got it right

let y equal to

the total fare and x is the mile of taxi ride. so the equation is

y = 0.55x + 1.75

since susie has

$10 to spend for a taxi cab, so he can have

10 = 0.55x +

1.75

x = 15 miles of

taxi ride

so the system of

inequality is

10 < 0.55x +

1.75

x > 2