The cost of renting a car if $55/wk plus $0.25/mi traveled during that week. An equation to represent the cost would be y = 55 + 0.25x, where x is the number of miles traveled.
If you had a maximum of $100 to spend on the car rental l, what would be the maximum number of miles you could travel?
We can use the equation y = 55 + 0.25x to represent the cost of renting a car. We want to find the maximum number of miles we can travel within a $100 budget. We can set y = 100 and solve for x as follows:
100 = 55 + 0.25x
Subtract 55 from both sides:
45 = 0.25x
Divide both sides by 0.25:
x = 180
Therefore, the maximum number of miles you can travel with a $100 budget is 180 miles.