Question

You were taking a cab ride across town. The cab driver automatically charges you a service fee for $2.00. Every minute spent in the cab you notice the meter went up $1.00.A.) Determine if the situation is an equation or inequality. Explain why.B.) Write an equation/inequality modeling the cost of the cab ride during the ride, where x is the number of minutes and y is the total cost.

Answer 1

It is an equation because we will have a unique result, not a range of results

the equation

the general form of the linar equation is

`y=mx+b`

where x is a variable, on this case the minutes in the cab

m is the value by which it changes every minute, so $1

b a fixed value, the initial fee $2

and y the total

so the equation is

`\begin{gathered} y=1x+2 \\ y=x+2 \end{gathered}`