SOLUTION: consider a taxi which charges $1.20 for the frist 1/3 of a mile and 1.50 for each additinal third of a mile how much would a 5 mile trip coast?

SOLUTION: consider a taxi which charges $1.20 for the frist 1/3 of a mile and 1.50 for each additinal third of a mile how much would a 5 mile trip coast?

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Question 732473:
consider a taxi which charges $1.20 for the frist 1/3 of a mile and 1.50 for each additinal third of a mile how much would a 5 mile trip coast?
Answer by checkley79(3341) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1.20+1.50(5-1/3)/(1/3)
1.20+1.50(4 2/3)/(1/3)
1.20+1.50(14/3)(3/1)
1.20+1.50*14
1.20+21=$22.20 ans.
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