SOLUTION: You want to rent a food truck for a family reunion. It costs $50 to rent the food truck plus $3.50 for each hour you decide to use the food truck. If you want to rent the food tr

Question 1166725: You want to rent a food truck for a family reunion. It costs $50 to rent the food truck plus $3.50 for each hour you decide to use the food truck. If you want to rent the food truck for 5 hours, what will be the total cost? (Be sure to label your answer with the correct units!)
Found 2 solutions by Theo, dkppathak:
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
the formula is:
c = 50 + 3.50 * x
c is the total cost
x is the number of hours.
if you rent the truck for 5 hours, then x = 5 and the formula becomes:
c = 50 + 3.50 * 5
solve for c to get:
c = 67.5 dollars.

Answer by dkppathak(439) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You want to rent a food truck for a family reunion. It costs $50 to rent the food truck plus $3.50 for each hour you decide to use the food truck. If you want to rent the food truck for 5 hours, what will be the total cost? (Be sure to label your answer with the correct units!)
solution
Total cost =50+3.5x where x is hired time in hours
here time is 5 hours
total cost=50+5*3.5
total cost=50+17.5
Total cost =$67.5
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