Question

The cost to rent a van is $19.50 per day plus $0.25 per mile. If you have $157 to

rent a van, what is the number of miles that you can drive if you want to rent the van
for 2 days and you want to stay below your budget? Let m represent the number of
miles.

Answer 1

92 miles

Write an inequality for the total cost of the rental.

Cost of the rental = 19.50+0.25x<=44

where x is the number of miles driven.

Subtract 19.50 from both sides.

0.25x<=44-19.50

0.25x<=24.5

x<=24.5/0.25

x<=98

Explanation: