SOLUTION: You often go to school by bus. You have two payment options. Option A is to buy a monthly pass for $15 and then pay $1. 75 per ride. Option B is to pay $2.50 per ride. After how

Question 1175857: You often go to school by bus. You have two payment options. Option A is to buy a monthly pass for $15 and then pay $1. 75 per ride. Option B is to pay $2.50 per ride. After how many rides will the total costs of the two options be the same? How much money will you spend?
Answer by Solver92311(821) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Buy monthly pass: Cost is

for

rides.

Don't buy pass: Cost is

for

rides.

Solve

to find the number of rides where the cost will be equal.

The total cost for a month where you used the bus for a break-even number of rides would be either $2.50 times the break-even number of rides or $1.75 times the break-even number of rides plus $15.00.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it

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