Math question! I need help

Question

A rental car company charges $40 per day to rent a car and $0.06 for every mile driven. Aaden wants to rent a car, knowing that: He plans to drive 100 miles. He has at most $130 to spend. Write and solve an inequality that can be used to determine xx, the number of days Aaden can afford to rent while staying within his budget.

Answer 1

Hi Ashley,

Let's break apart what's given in the problem and create an inequality.

We know that it costs $0.06 for every mile driven and we plan to drive 100 miles, that means we can set the inequality as:

40x + 0.06(100) ≤ 130

40x + 6 ≤ 130

Rearranging the inequality so we have the variable alone on one side, we get:

40x ≤ 124

Divide both sides by 40 to get x alone.

x ≤ 3.1

From our solution, Aaden can afford to drive the car for 3 days and stay under his budget.

I hope this helps!