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A cab company charges a flat fee boarding rate in addition to a per mile rate. Using your own experience or some internet research, write an equation that represents a cab company’s rate taking into account the initial flat boarding rate and the per mile rate.
Identify the independent and the dependent variables and describe how they are related.
- What would you consider the domain and the range of the function to be?
- How much would it cost to go from your home to nearest grocery store in this cab?
- Would you suspect that it could be modeled by a linear, a quadratic function, or another type of function?
Explanation & Answer
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Algebra
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Algebra
Solution: Let
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y be the total fee charged by the Cab for every destination it takes the passenger
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b to represent the fee charged per mile
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a to represent the flat fee boarding rate
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x to represent the distance travelled in miles
y = a +...
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