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Anna is ordering a taxi from an online taxi service. She has to pay a flat charge just to order the taxi, and then has to pay per mile, depending on how far she travels. She wrote an equation to represent her total cost, y=3+2. 3xy=3+2. 3x, where yy represents the total cost in dollars and cents, and xx represents the number of miles she travels. What could the number 3 represent in the equation?.

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The number 3 represents the fixed cost in the equation which is the flat charge.

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