SOLUTION: In A Certain city, the coust of a taxi ride is computed as follows. There is a fixed charge of 2.95 as soon as you get in the taxi, to which a charge of 1.65 per mile is added. Fin
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Question 32271: In A Certain city, the coust of a taxi ride is computed as follows. There is a fixed charge of 2.95 as soon as you get in the taxi, to which a charge of 1.65 per mile is added. Find an equation to find the cost, C(X) of an x-mile taxi ride, and use this equation to find the cost of a five mile taxi ride. Answer by mbarugel(146) (Show Source):
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The cost of the taxi ride should be expressed as follows:
where X is the number of miles. Notice that when the number of miles is zero, you're chard 2.95 ("There is a fixed charge of 2.95 as soon as you get in the taxi"), and then, for each 1 extra 'X' (one mile), the cost rises by 1.65 ("a charge of 1.65 per mile is added").
In order to find the cost of the 5-mile ride, we simply set X=5 and find C:
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