Question

A rental car company charges $25 per day to rent a car and $0.12 for every mile driven. Violet wants to rent a car, knowing that:

She plans to drive 125 miles.
She has at most $150 to spend.

Write and solve an inequality which can be used to determine dd, the number of days Violet can afford to rent while staying within her budget.

Answer 1

The written inequality can be written as 0.12x + 25 <= 150.

Explanation:

To solve the inequality you would plug in the 125 miles for x so 0.12(125) + 25 <= 150 0.12(125) would equal 15 so 15 + 25 <= 150 150/40 would equal 3.75 days but you cant have .75 of a day so Violet would have three days max to afford to rent the car while staying in her budget.