Required Resources
- Read/review the following resources for this activity:
- Knewton text (integrated in Knewton Assignments)
- Lesson in Canvas
Instructions
Create a presentation explaining your step-by-step approach to solving the problem below. Your presentation should be done in PowerPoint with Voice Over and should be 1 – 2 minutes in length.
You are moving and need a rental truck. The rental company you have chosen charges a $70/day fee plus $0.20 for every mile you travel. Write a linear equation that expresses the total cost y, where x represents the number of miles you travel. Graph this equation. Then choose a number of miles, x, you travel that day and find the total cost of renting the truck.
ANSWER:
NOTE: This part of the answer. [Full answer in PowerPoint presentation form is available upon purchase]
The rental company charges a $70 fee plus additional $0.20 for every mile traveled
Thus, Let x be the number of miles traveled
Let y be the total cost
The linear equation for this case is;
y=0.20x+70
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