A bicycle rental company charges $12 for the first hour and $5.75 for each additional hour. Determine the maximum number of hours you can rent a bike if you only have $81

Answer 1

You have to take out the first hour out of your total first. 81-12= 69 then divide 69 by 5.75 to get the remaining hours you can pay for. 69 divided by 5.75 = 12 more hours so you have to add your first hour back in and you get 13 hours to rent the bike. If you are not sure how to divide by decimals you need to move the decimal to the right two places in both numbers, meaning you really are dividing 6900 by 575.