Question

A downtown parking garage charges individuals to park a car according to the following rate schedule: $1.00 for the first hour, then $2 for each subsequent hour until the daily maximum charge of $9.00 is reached. These charges are represented in the graph below.

which of the following is true?

Answer 1

In the graph, a white dot means that the value does not belong to the set, while the colored dot means that the value does belong.

Let's analyze each statement (from top to bottom)

1)The x-axis represents the number of hours, and the y-axis the charge.

Then let's find x = 2.

You can see that there is a colored dot at y = $3, and a white dot at y = $5.

Then the price for exactly two hours is $3, not $5.

Then this first statement is wrong.

2) You can assume that 20 minutes is in between x = 0 and x =1, then from that point, you can see that the equivalent value of y is $1. Then the individuals who park only for 20 minutes will be charged with $1,

This statement is wrong.

3) 1 hour and 15 minutes is in between 1 and 2 hours.

And as you can see, for 1 < x ≤ 2, the price is $3. Then this statement is correct.

4) Here we have x > 4.

In the graph you can see that all values of x > 4 are mapped into the black part of the graph, which is equivalent to the maximum charge of $9.

Then this statement is correct.