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Your boss is still trying to save money on car rentals. You compare Alpha Car Rental, which charges $72.00 per day with unlimited free mileage, and Amazing Car Rental, which charges $22.90 plus 30 cents per mile.

a. Some days you drive many miles, and some days you drive fewer miles. Determine the range of daily mileage for which each company is the less expensive choice.

b. Write a report to your boss that includes your recommendations about which car-rental company to use depending on the number of miles you plan to drive. Explain how you arrived at your recommendation. Use computations/written work, graphs, or tables to provide support for your conclusions.

Answer 1

A)

If you are driving many miles a day, Alpha Car Rental is cheaper. If you are driving fewer miles a day, then Amazing Car Rental is cheaper.

B)

You can find this out by graphing the 2.

Alpha: y = 0x + 72.

Amazing: y = 0.30x +22.9

Where y is cost, and x is miles.

When you graph the 2, Alpha is a straight line because it has no mileage charge. The 2 linear functions meet at point (163.6, 72). Meaning if you drive more than 163 miles, it is cheaper to use Alpha Car Rental over Amazing Car rental.

Hope that helps