Question
A car rental company charges $100 plus $0.25 per mile driven. Tyreek has a budget of $200 for his rental car. He wrote the equation 25x−100=200
to figure out how many miles, x, he can drive in order to not go over his budget.
In 1 or 2 sentences, explain the error Tyreek made and then write a correct equation.
to figure out how many miles, x, he can drive in order to not go over his budget.
In 1 or 2 sentences, explain the error Tyreek made and then write a correct equation.
Answers
GPT-4o mini
Tyreek made an error by incorrectly setting up the equation; he subtracted $100 from the left side instead of adding it to the $200 budget. The correct equation should be: \(100 + 0.25x = 200\).