Question

The cost for renting a truck for one day is $19.95 and has a rate of$0.50 per mile. Write a function rule to model the cost of renting atruck for one day. Then evaluate the function for traveling 73 miles.

Answer 1

The cost of renting a truck for one day is $19.95 and has a rate of $0.50 per mile.

We can write a function rule to model the cost of renting a truck for one day.

$y=0.50x+19.95$

Where x is the number of miles and y is the corresponding cost of renting.

Now we can find the cost of renting for traveling 73 miles.

Substitute x = 73 into the function.

$\begin{gathered} y=0.50(73)+19.95 \\ y=36.5+19.95 \\ y=\ 56.45 \end{gathered}$

Therefore, the cost of renting the truck for one day and 73 miles will be $56.45