5. A cab company charges $12 per mile for a lift to the airport.
What change would the company make to their charges to make this a non proportional situation?
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Responses
Charge a flat rate of $20 and then $12 per mile
Charge a flat rate of $20 and then $12 per mile
Charge $15 per mile instead of $12
Charge $15 per mile instead of $12
No changes are needed.
No changes are needed.
Charge $4 per mile instead of $12
Charge a flat rate of $20 and then $12 per mile
is it right
Yes, you are correct. To make the situation non-proportional, the company would need to charge a flat rate of $20 and then an additional $12 per mile.
To make the situation non-proportional, the company would need to charge a different fee per mile than $12. Therefore, the correct answer would be to charge $15 per mile instead of $12.
To determine what change the company would need to make to their charges to create a non-proportional situation, we need to understand what it means for a situation to be proportional. In a proportional situation, two quantities are directly proportional if they maintain a constant ratio. In this case, the company charges $12 per mile. This means that as the number of miles increases, the cost also increases in a proportional manner.
To make this a non-proportional situation, the company would need to change their charges so that the cost per mile is not constant. Looking at the given options, we can see that the first two choices involve a flat rate of $20, followed by $12 per mile. This is still a proportional situation because there is a constant ratio between the distance traveled and the cost.
The third option, "No changes are needed," suggests that the current charges make it a non-proportional situation. However, this is incorrect because the given charges are already proportional.
The last option, "Charge $4 per mile instead of $12," would indeed make it a non-proportional situation. With this change, the cost of the ride would decrease for each additional mile traveled. As a result, the ratio between the distance traveled and the cost would no longer be constant.
Therefore, the correct answer is "Charge $4 per mile instead of $12" to make it a non-proportional situation.