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Two car rental companies have different rental plans. Sand's Car Rental charges $50 a day and 10 cents every mile traveled. Beach Car Rental charges $60 dollars a day and no per mile charge. How many days would the trip need to be to make the costs equal, if the trip total was 300 miles?

3 days
2 days
1 week They will never be equal.

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The equation that solves the problem above is:
50x+30=60x
10x=30
x=3 day

Final answer: A. 3 days
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