Question

Alex and his father took a taxi cab that charges $2.60 per mile plus $3.00 for the two passengers, and they paid a total of $18.60. Alex wrote the equation 18.60=2.60b+3.00 for this situation and found b=6, where b represents the number of miles the taxi traveled. How could Alex correctly solve this problem without using the equation?

Answer 1

Answer is explained Below

Explanation:

He could subtract 3 from both sides of the equation first. Then he could divide both sides to get D alone. When you do the D=