The cost of renting a car is $55/wk plus $0.15/mi traveled during that week. An equation to represent the cost would be y = 55 + 0.15x, where x is the number of miles traveled. Suppose you have a maximum of $100 to spend for the car rental. What would be the maximum number of miles you could travel?
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So, we can write the inequality: $y \leq 100$ Now, we can substitute the equation for the cost of renting a car into the inequality: $55 + 0.15x \leq 100$ Show more…
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