SOLUTION: uhaila will rent a car for the weekend. She can choose one of two plans. The first plan has an initial fee of $50 and costs an additional $0.10 per kilometer driven. The second pla

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Question 1187541: uhaila will rent a car for the weekend. She can choose one of two plans. The first plan has an initial fee of $50 and costs an additional $0.10 per kilometer driven. The second plan has no initial fee but costs $0.60 per kilometer driven. How many kilometers would Suhaila need to drive for the two plans to cost the same?
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uhaila will rent a car for the weekend. She can choose one of two plans.
The first plan has an initial fee of $50 and costs an additional $0.10 per kilometer driven.
The second plan has no initial fee but costs $0.60 per kilometer driven.
How many kilometers would Suhaila need to drive for the two plans to cost the same?
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From the problem, you have this equation


    50 + 0.10*x = 0.60*x


to find the number of kilometers x.


From the equation, you have


    50 = 0.60x - 0.1x

    50 = (0.60 - 0.10)*x

    50 = 0.50x

     x = 50%2F0.50 = 100.


ANSWER.  100 kilometers.

Solved.