SOLUTION: You are riding in a taxi and can only pay with cash. You have to pay a flat fee of $25, and then pay $3.40 per mile. You have a total of $229 in your pocket. Let x be the number of
Question 1186785: You are riding in a taxi and can only pay with cash. You have to pay a flat fee of $25, and then pay $3.40 per mile. You have a total of $229 in your pocket. Let x be the number of miles the taxi will drive you. You want to know how many miles you can afford.
a. Write an inequality to represent this situation in terms of how many miles you can afford.
Your inequality has three parts, a left side, a right side, and a comparison operator in the middle: <, > or . Enter these as <, >, <=, >=, =, and !=.
b. Solve this inequality. At most how many miles can you afford?
c. Use interval notation to express the number of miles you can afford. Answer by ikleyn(52942) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
I usually solve such problems in one line
the number of miles = = then I use my calculator and get = 60 miles. ANSWER
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