The fare for a taxi is $3.20 plus $0.45 every fifth of a km. Four people agree to share the cost equally of a 40km trip. What is each person’s share of the fare

Question

The fare for a taxi is $3.20 plus $0.45 every fifth of a km. Four people agree to share the cost equally of a 40km trip. What is each person’s share of the fare?

Answer 1

So the equation for this is

First we need to find the cost per Km. So we can reason this, it costs $0.45 for each 5th of a Km. So we multiply $0.45 by 5 to find the cost per Km. This equals $2.25 per Km.

Total Cost = [Base fair of taxi ($)] + [distance traveled (Km) x Cost per Km Traveled ($Km)]

Total Cost = $3.20 + [40 km x $2.25 $/Km)

Total Cost = $93.20

So divide that total amount by the people splitting the fare (4).

That gives cost per person

$93.20/4= $23.3 per person

So each person will pay $23.30