Question

Kevin has $26 and wants to rent a bicycle at the beach. The bicycle rents for a

base fee of $5 and then $6.25 per hour. What is the most amount of hours that
Kevin can rent the bicycle for?

Answer 1

is this a multi choice ???

Answer 2

3.36 hours. Please read the explanation though and make sure you understand my last statement.

Explanation:

Will you t to represent time again. $6.25t will represent how much he pays for t amount of time. We must take the $5 base fee into consideration as well. Set up:

$6.25t + $5 = $26

First add like terms to get

$6.25t = $21

Now solve for t by dividing both sides by $6.25

t = 3.36 hours

I do not know if they want the decimal remainder or to the hour. If they want it to the hour, the answer is 3 hours.