document.write( "Question 101407: A car can be rented from Continental Rental for $80 per week plus 25 cents for each mile driven. How many miles can you travel if you can spend at most $400 for the week? Can you help me figure this out? thanks \n" ); document.write( "

Algebra.Com's Answer #73839 by bucky(2189) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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If you pay $80 to rent the car, then you have $320 left to pay for the miles you are going to drive.
\n" ); document.write( "(That amount comes from $400 - $80 = $320).
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\n" ); document.write( "At 25 cents per mile, you can drive 4 miles for each dollar you spend on mileage. (That comes
\n" ); document.write( "from $\"1.00%2F0.25+=+4+\"$ miles per dollar)
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\n" ); document.write( "And since you have 320 dollars to spend on mileage, at the rate of 4 miles per dollar you
\n" ); document.write( "can drive 320 * 4 = 1280 miles during the week.
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\n" ); document.write( "Hope this helps you to see how you can think your way through problems such as this rather
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