Question

Boris rented a truck for one day. There was a base fee of $16.95, and there was an additional charge of 72 cents for each mile driven. Boris had to pay $232.23when he returned the truck. For how many miles did he drive the truck?

Answer 1

Given:-

The base fee of rented truck is $16.95.

The additional charge of 72 cents for each mile driven.

Boris payed $232.23 when he rerturned the vechile.

we know that 1 dollar = 100 cents. Therefore 72 cents is,

$72cents=0.72dollars$

So the value if 72 cents is 0.72 dollars.

Let m be the miles. so to find the required miles are,

$\begin{gathered} m=\frac{232.23-16.95}{0.72} \\ m=\frac{215.28}{0.72} \\ m=299 \end{gathered}$

Therefore Boris covered 299 miles.