A truck can be rented from Company A for $90 a day plus 50.40 per mile. Company B charges $30 a day plus 50 60 per mile to rent the same truck. Find the numberof miles in a day at which the rental costs for Company A and Company B are the same.At what miles, the rental costs are the same from either company?

Respuesta :

For this problem we can create the following functions for the total cost for ech company like this:

[tex]Ca=90+50.4x[/tex][tex]Cb=30+50.60x[/tex]

Where x represent the number of miles and Ca, Cb the cost for Company A and B respectively. For this case we can set up equal both costs and we got:

[tex]90+50.4x=30+50.60x[/tex]

And if we solve for x we got:

[tex]90-30=(50.60-50.40)x[/tex][tex]60=0.2x[/tex]

And solving for x we got:

[tex]x=\frac{60}{0.2}=300[/tex]

And for this case we can conclude that x=300 miles in order to have the same rental costs for both companies