Question

Jim's family went on vacation and rented a car. The rental agency charged 64.75 plus an additional 0.03 for each mile the car was driven. If Jim's family paid a total of 71.14 for the car rental, how many miles did the family drive the car

Answer 1

213

Explanation:

We can set up an equation for this problem.

Since we have given, the rental price and an additional price in addition to that, denoting the miles driven with m, we can write that:

`64.75 + 0.03m`

According to the total payment, we can set up an equation:

`64.75 + 0.03m = 71.14`

`0.03m = 6.39`

`m = 213`

The family has driven 213 miles.