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document.write( "A downtown employee is looking for the best option for parking a car during a 5 day work week.  Garage A offers unlimited parking at a flat rate $150.00 per month. Garage B offers an hourly rate of $5.00 for parking. Which option is best for the employee on a monthly basis?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The employee is parking 160 hours per month.  This is a word problem that I had to come up with on my own make 2 linear equations out of it and then graph it and show where they intercept.  \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you! </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "A downtown employee is looking for the best option for parking a car during a 5 day work week.  Garage A offers unlimited parking at a flat rate $150.00 per month. Garage B offers an hourly rate of $5.00 for parking. Which option is best for the employee on a monthly basis?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The employee is parking 160 hours per month.  This is a word problem that I had to come up with on my own make 2 linear equations out of it and then graph it and show where they intercept.  \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you!\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Garage A's charge is $150\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Garage B's charge = 5H, with H being amount of hours of parking\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "5H < 150\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "H, or hours that'll make garage B's cost less than garage A's should be < <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=150%2F5 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"150%2F5\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >, or < <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=30 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"30\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "This means that if a person needs to park for less than 30 hours per month, then garage B will be cheaper.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "At 30 hours per month both costs are equal.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Parking for 160 hours DEFINITELY makes garage A the cheaper of the two. You can do the math to see why this is so.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "You can graph garage A's linear equation as A(x) = 0x + 150, with x being the amount of monthly-hours of parking\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Garage B's equation: B(x) = 5x, with x being the amount of hours of monthly-hours of parking. \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "You'll then see where the two equations intersect, which is the point where the two costs are equal. </SPAN>\n" );
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