Question

The total cost to pay for parking at a state park for the day and rent a paddleboat are:

Answer 1

The total cost to pay for parking at a state park for the day and rent a paddleboat are:
1 hour $17, 2 hours $29, 3 hours $41, 4 hours $53.
A: find the cost to park for a day and the hourly rate to rent a paddleboat.
B: What will Lin pay if she rents a paddleboat for 3.5 hours and splits the total cost with a friend? Explain.

Answer 2

Are we assuming that "for the day" means 24 hours?  Or is 4 hours the max? It seems to me that some info is missing. To find the cost to park for a day and the hourly rate to rate a paddle-boat is given otherwise and they are together, not separate.

For part B, again, I feel like something is missing. It doesn't say anything about .5 hours, just full hours. So I guess we'd have to figure out the hourly rate for 3 hours and multiply that by 3.5.

$41/3 ~ 13.67/hour. So 13.67 * 3.5 = 47.85