Question

A taxi service charges you $1.50 plus $0.60 per minute for trip to the airport the distance to the airport is 10 miles and the total charges $13.50 how many minutes of the ride to the airport take

Answer 1

You start by writing an algebraic equation:

0.6m+1.5=13.5
‘m’ represents the amount of minutes

Then you simply solve it:

0.6m+1.5=13.5
-1.5 -1.5
_____________
0.6m= 12
/0.6 /0.6
_____________
m=20

It took 20 minutes for the person to reach the airport.

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