Question

Car rental agency charges $100 to rent a car and $0.28 per mile driven.If your rental bill after returning the car is $158.80 how many miles did you drive? Write and solve an equation to solve the problem

Answer 1

210 miles

Explanation:

Let m represent the number of miles driven. According to the problem statement, the charges are ...

total charge = daily charge + (mileage charge)×(miles driven)

Substituting the given values and the variable we have defined, we get ...

158.80 = 100 + 0.28m . . . . . the equation

58.80 = 0.28m . . . . . . subtract 100

210 = m . . . . . . . . . . . . divide by 0.28 . . . . the solution

You drove 210 miles. . . . . . . . the answer to the question asked