Taxi fares are $3.50 for the first half mile and $0.75 fro each addditional quater mile. Write a rule for computing the fare for an n-mile trip by taxi.

Question

Taxi fares are $3.50 for the first half mile and $0.75 fro each addditional quater mile.  Write a rule for computing the fare for an n-mile trip by taxi.

Damon · Answer

fare = 3.50 + .75(4)(n - .5) simplify that