Question

On a nice spring day you decided to rent a motorcycle. At the rental place they inform you it is $35 per hour to rent the motorcycle and there is a non- refundable fee of $55. You decide to rent the motorcycle for 5 hours. Write a linear expression that fits this scenario and find the total cost of the rental.

Answer 1

y = 55+ 35x

It's $230 to rent for 5 hrs.

Explanation:

Let's call the total cost y.

Let's call the hours you rent the bike x.

The equation (in words) would be the total cost is the non refundable fee of $55 plus 35/hr times the number of hours you rent the bike.

So as an equation:

y = 55+ 35x

Now plug in 5 for x and solve:

y = 55 + 35(5)

y = 55 + 175

y = $230.