SOLUTION: Saver Renta a Car Agency charges $51 per day plus 20 Cents per mile to rent a certain Car. Local charges $65 per day plus 16 Cents per mile to rent the same Car. How many miles wil
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Question 1027758: Saver Renta a Car Agency charges $51 per day plus 20 Cents per mile to rent a certain Car. Local charges $65 per day plus 16 Cents per mile to rent the same Car. How many miles will have to be deriven for the Cost of saver's Car to equal the Cost of local's car?
Found 2 solutions by solver91311, josmiceli:
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It depends on how many days you want to keep the car. The cost per day for the first company is 
and the cost per day for the second company is 
. Set these two expressions equal to each other and then solve for 
to get the number of miles per day that must be driven to make the costs equal.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the cost of renting a car
Let = number of miles driven
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Saver Renta a Car Agency:
(1)
Local's rental car:
(2)
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Assume the car is only driven for 1 day
the car has to be driven 350 miles for
both costs to be equal
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