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A taxi cab costs $1.50 for the first mile and $0.75 for each additional mile. Which equation could be solved to find how many miles you can travel in a taxi for $10, given that x is the number of additional miles?

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$10 dollars could get you to travel 11 miles with 25 cents left over. The equation would be 10=1.5+.75x



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