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document.write( "Best Rentals charges a daily fee plus a mileage fee for renting its cars. Barney was charged $69 for 3 days and 300 miles, while Mary was charged $123 for 5 days and 600 miles. Find the daily fee and find the mileage charge?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "I have no idea where to start!  Thanks! </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Let <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large m\"> represent the amount charged per mile.  Let <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large d\"> represent the daily fee.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "In the first situation, where the mileage fee represents the cost of traveling 300 miles, that cost can be expressed as <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large 300m\">.  That is, the number of miles traveled times the cost per mile.  Furthermore, the cost for the daily fee for the 3 days is represented by <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large 3d\">, i.e. the number of days times the daily fee.  The sum of the two is given as $69, hence:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 300m\ +\ 3d\ =\ 69\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "In a similar fashion, we can derive another equation that describes the second situation:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 600m + 5d\ =\ 123\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Now all you have to do is solve the system for the ordered pair <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large (m,d)\">.  Hint:  Since the larger coefficient on <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large m\"> is an integer multiple of the other, this system lends itself nicely to the Elimination method.  Just multiply the first equation by -2 and proceed.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\"><BR>\n" );
document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it<BR>\n" );
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