Question

A parking garage charges $5. 50 to park for 4 hours and $7. 75 to park for 7 hours. If the cost is a linear function of the number of hours parked, what is the cost to park for 3 hours? $2. 25 $2. 50 $3. 25 $4. 75.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

So we are given 2 coordinates.

so in a linear equation, we have the given function:

y=mx+b

thus we should have an x value and a y value.

So let's set x to be the hours and y be the cost

With 2 sets of coordinates, we can solve for the slope (m in the function) of the function using rise/run or y1-y2/x1-x2

so with that being said,

7.75-5.5/7-4=m

2.25/3=m

.75=m

This is our slope.

Our formula will look like this: y=0.75x

Now we can determine how much it will cost in 3 hours by changing x to be 3 since x is the number of hours parked

y=0.75(3)

y=2.25

The cost to park for 3 hours will be $2.25

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