If you want to determine which one is better then you can just plug in the distance in place of x. For example if it asked you which one was better for 5 miles, uber or lyft you could plug 5 into the equation.
It would look like this
Lyft: 4.50 (5)= 22.5
Uber
2.50 (5) +5= 17.5
If the distance were 5 miles uber would be the better option.
