SOLUTION: You and your family need to take a taxi to get around town on your vacation. The taxi service charges $7.50 for the initial pickup of you and your family and $.25 per mile. Write a

Question 1171085: You and your family need to take a taxi to get around town on your vacation. The taxi service charges $7.50 for the initial pickup of you and your family and $.25 per mile. Write and graph an equation to represent the cost of any taxi trip you take while on vacation.
Answer by ikleyn(52805) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The requested equation is


    C(m) = 7.50 + 0.25*m,


where C(m) is the total cost (in dollars) for "m" miles.


Make the plot on your own.


You may use the plotting tool at the site  www.desmos.com  for free.

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