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Pleasee help I'm stuck on this question! At Cheng's Bike Rentals, it costs $23 to rent a bike for 4 hours. How many hours of bike use does a customer get per dollar? if necessary round to the nesrest hundredth. ​

User Goker
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Answer:

0.17

Explanation:

We can create two ratios to find how long you can use a bike for one dollar.

Let's set up a ratio in the form

We know it costs $23 to ride for 4 hours, so we can make the fraction .

We also know that for $1, we'll have some unknown time for the bike. We can represent this as .

Since the constant of proportionality has to be the same, we can set these two ratios equal to each other.

We can now solve for x by cross multiplying.

So $1 will get you around 0.17 hours of bike time.

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User Aldert
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Answer:


\huge\boxed{\text{0.17 hours}}

Explanation:

We can create two ratios to find how long you can use a bike for one dollar.

Let's set up a ratio in the form
(cost)/(hours)

We know it costs $23 to ride for 4 hours, so we can make the fraction
(23)/(4).

We also know that for $1, we'll have some unknown time for the bike. We can represent this as
(1)/(x).

Since the constant of proportionality has to be the same, we can set these two ratios equal to each other.


(23)/(4)=(1)/(x)

We can now solve for x by cross multiplying.


1 \cdot 4 = 4\\\\4 / 32 \approx 0.17

So $1 will get you around 0.17 hours of bike time.

Hope this helped!

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