Question

Emma rents a car from a company that rents cars by the hour. She has to pay an initial fee of $75, and then they charge her $9 per hour. Write an equation for the total cost if Emma rents the car for ℎ hours. If Emma has budgeted $250 for the rental cars, how many hours can she rent the car? Assume the car cannot be rented for part of an hour.

Answer 1

Y = 9h + 75. She can rent the car for 19 hours. The math for determining the amount of hours she can rent the car is 250 minus 75 is 175. 175 divided by 9 is 19.44. Assuming she can’t rent for part of an hour, it would be 19.