Question

a computer shop charges 20 pesos per hour (or a fraction of an hour) for the first two hours and additional 10 pesos per hour for each succeeding hour. find how much you would pay if you used one of their computers for 40 minutes. show solutions.​

Answer 1

The equation for the price, as a function of time in hours is:

P(x) = 20*x for 0 ≤ x ≤ 2

P(x) = 40 + 10*(x - 2) for 2 ≤ x

Now, we want to evaluate this function in 40 mins.

we know that 1 hour = 60mins.

Then 40 mins = (40/60) hours = 0.67 hours.

Then we input this in our function, and because this is smaller than 2, we use the first piece of our function:

P(0.67) = 20*0.67 = 13.4

So in 40 mins, the charge will be 13.4 pesos.