Question

A car rental business charges a daily fee along with a one-time fixed charge to refuel the car when it is returned. The equation the business uses to calculate the total rental cost, c is c=15d+24c = 15 d + 24, where d represents the number of rental days. What is the daily increase in the total cost of the rental?

Answer 1

$15

Explanation:

Since we are given the actual equation, which is c = 15d + 24 (it is repeated in the question twice) we can see that the independent variable would be the number of days that the car is rented. Therefore we can simply plug in a value for this to calculate c. So below we can see the total cost for 1 day rent (d = 1 ) and 2 days rented (d = 2)

c = 15(1) + 24 = 39

c = 15(2) + 24 = 54

Now we can simply subtract these two values and to see the daily increase

54-39 = 15

Therefore we can see that the total price will increase by $15 for each day that it is rented.