Question

The cost of a taxi ride is 5 dollars plus 50 cents per mile. write an algebraic explanation that models the cost of a taxi ride of m miles

Answer 1

5+0.5m hope this helps :)

Answer 2

`c=5+0.5*m`

Explanation:

I will call the total cost of the ride by the letter
`c`, and the number of miles (acording to the problem) is
`m`.

For each mile 0.5 cents are charged, so if m miles are traveled,
`0.5*m` will be charged for those miles.

Then the total cost of the taxi ride is

`c=5+0.5*m`

the 5 in the equation is because the taxi ride is 5 dollars initially, and then the 0.5*m is the cost for the miles traveled.