A truck rental costs $2 per miles, m

Question

, driven plus a $24 rental fee. Translate the words into an algebraic expression.

Answer 1

To translate the given information into an algebraic expression, we need to represent the total cost of the truck rental.

Let \( m \) represent the number of miles driven.

The cost can be expressed as follows:

• The variable cost for the miles driven is \( 2m \) (since it costs $2 per mile).
• The fixed rental fee is $24.

Putting it all together, the total cost \( C \) can be expressed as:

\[ C = 2m + 24 \]

This is the algebraic expression for the cost of the truck rental based on the miles driven \( m \).