Question 1174885: A car rental company leases automobile for a charge of 20 dollars per day plus 2 dollars per mile write an equation for cost Y dollars in terms of the distance X driven, if the car is leased for 5 days?
Answer by math_tutor2020(3817)   (Show Source):
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Answer: y = 2x+100
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Work Shown:
x = number of miles driven
y = total cost
Each day costs $20 to lease it, ignoring the mileage for now.
This means leasing for five days costs 5*20 = 100 dollars.
If we account for the number of miles driven, then we add on 2x dollars. This is because it costs $2 per mile, and x is the number of miles.
So overall, it costs 2x+100 dollars to drive x miles when you lease the car for 5 days.
We can then write y = 2x+100 is the equation to tie together the mileage (x) and the total cost (y).
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