You want to celebrate all of your recent successes. You decide to reward yourself and a special someone with a vacation to a destination of your choosing. For your trip you will need to stay in a hotel/resort and rent a car.
You decide to rent a car for the duration of your trip. You have two options. Write an equation for each company that depicts the total cost of the rental, y, based on the number of days, x.
Cheepers Rent-A-Car:
$39/day with a one-time charge of $20 for insurance/fees
Busters:
$49/day but all additional fees are included in the price of the rental
Be sure to label each equation with the company it corresponds to.
Cheepers = 39x + 20
Busters = 49x
Sure! Let's start by writing the equation for Cheepers Rent-A-Car.
Since the cost per day is $39 and there is a one-time charge of $20 for insurance/fees, the equation can be written as:
y = 39x + 20
Here, y represents the total cost of the car rental, and x represents the number of days.
Now let's move on to the equation for Busters.
Since the cost per day is $49 and all additional fees are already included in the price, the equation can be written as:
y = 49x
Again, y represents the total cost of the car rental, and x represents the number of days.
So, the equations for each company are:
Cheepers Rent-A-Car: y = 39x + 20
Busters: y = 49x