Question

The parking rates at the hospital’s parking garage are 50 cents for the first hour and 25 cents for each additional hour. If Juan parks in the hospital’s parking garage for 8 hours, how much will the total charge for parking be?

Answer 1

The total charge for Juan in the parking spot would be $2.25.

Since we know one of those 8 hours is 50 cents, we can multiply .25 by 7 which would give us 1.75. Then we know that the first hour, as stated above, is going to be .50, so we can add that to our total which is 2.25.

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