Irma needs to rent a car for a business trip from phoenix to san jose (720 miles one way). she will drive round trip and will be gone a total of 8 days. the car rental company charges $65.00 per day and allows for 1,600 miles for irmas's trip. there will be an additional charge of $0.24 per mile over the 1,600 miles allowed. how many total miles can she drive without exceeding her budget of $600.00?

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Wyatt Mack

Mathematics

6 September, 01:44

Irma needs to rent a car for a business trip from phoenix to san jose (720 miles one way). she will drive round trip and will be gone a total of 8 days. the car rental company charges $65.00 per day and allows for 1,600 miles for irmas's trip. there will be an additional charge of $0.24 per mile over the 1,600 miles allowed. how many total miles can she drive without exceeding her budget of $600.00?

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Akira Stein · Answer 1

To find the number of miles Erma can drive, you will write and equation and solve it to find the amount of miles that can be driven on $600 over the 1600 miles that are allowed.

Daily rate + cost per mile over 1600 = total cost

(65 x 8) + 0.24m = 600

520 + 0.24m = 600

-520 - 520

0.24m = 80

0.24 0.24

m = 333.33 ... miles

The maximum number of whole miles she can drive would be 1933 miles (1600 + 333).