SOLUTION: A truck can be rented from Basic Rental for $50 per day In addition you pay 20 cent per mile. Continental charges per day $20 per day in addition to 50 Cent per mile rent out th

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Question 360105: A truck can be rented from Basic Rental for $50 per day In addition you pay 20 cent per mile. Continental charges per day $20 per day in addition to 50 Cent per mile rent out the same truck. How many miles must you drive in a day to make the cost for Basic Rental a better deal than that Continental?
Answer by mananth(16946)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A truck can be rented from Basic Rental for $50 per day In addition you pay 20 cent per mile. Continental charges per day $20 per day in addition to 50 Cent per mile rent out the same truck. How many miles must you drive in a day to make the cost for Basic Rental a better deal than that Continental?
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let x be the mileage per day
Basic Rental = 50+0.2x
Continental = 20+0.5x
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50+0.2x<20+0.5x
50-20<0.5x-0.2x
30<0.3x
100 ...
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