A cab charges a $4 initial fee and then $2.50 per mile. If the cab driver charged you $15.25, how many miles, m, did you travel?
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Answer:
(C) 220
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x represent the number of adult tickets sold and y represent the number of student tickets sold. With the information given, we can set up two equations:
(Since for every adult ticket sold, $5 is made and for every student ticket sold, $3 is made)
In the first equation, we can represent x in terms of y:
And then, we can substitute x in the second equation for 360 - y to get:
which simplifies to:
and therefore,
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