Question

The rate to rent a small moving van is $30 per day, plus $0.50 per mile. Jada rented a van to drive to her new home. It took two days, and the van cost $360. How many miles did she drive?

Answer 1

Jada rented a van to drive to her new home. It took tw

o days, and the van cost $360.How many miles did she drive?

she drives 720 miles

Answer 2

Jada drove 600 miles.

Given - Cost per day and mile, total cost

Find - Distance

Solution - Let the distance be x miles.

Now, total cost is cost per day and the cost as per the distance. Since it took two days, the cost of days will be -

Cost on number of days = 30×2

Cost on number of days = 60

Now, forming the equation to find the amount of distance covered.

60 + 0.5×x = 360

Shifting 60 to Right Hand Side of the equation

0.5x = 360 - 60

Performing subtraction on Right Hand Side of the equation

0.5x = 300

Shifting 0.5 to Right Hand Side of the equation

x = 300÷0.5

Performing Division on Right Hand Side of the equation

x = 3000÷5

x = 600

Hence, Jada drove 600 miles.

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