Question

Get–Around Cab Company charges $2.50 upon entry and $2 per mile. Write the function that represents the cost C of a ride of m miles.

Answer 1

c = 2.50 + 2m

Because the rate is 2 dollars per mile, we know the equation is 2m.

Answer 2

`C(m)=2m+2.50`

Explanation:

Let C represent cost of the ride and m represent number of miles.

We have been given that Get-Around Cab Company charges $2 per mile. So the cost of riding a cab for m miles would be
`2m`.

The company charges $2.50 upon entry, so the total cost of riding a cab for m miles would be
`2m+2.50`.

Since C represent cost of ride, so we will equate total cost of riding a cab for m miles by C as:

`C(m)=2m+2.50`

Therefore, our required function would be
`C(m)=2m+2.50`.