Cesar rents a bicycle for a flat rate plus $10 per hour. He models the cost of the rental with the function f(x)=10x+15

Question

, where x
is the number of hours he rents the bicycle, and f(x)
is the total cost of the bicycle rental, including the flat rate and the hourly fee. What is the flat rate for the bicycle rental?

Answer 1

In the function \( f(x) = 10x + 15 \), \( f(x) \) represents the total cost of renting the bicycle, \( x \) represents the number of hours the bicycle is rented, and the term \( 10x \) represents the hourly fee of $10 per hour.

The constant term in the function, which is \( 15 \), represents the flat rate fee that Cesar pays regardless of how many hours he rents the bicycle.

Therefore, the flat rate for the bicycle rental is $15.