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We beat the Street -Chapter12

1. Why might the summer school courses benefit Sampson, George, and Rameck?

The summer courses might benefit Sampson, George, and Rameck as they will be able to earn graduate level of teaching in Chemistry, Mathematics, and Writing, which will help them to earn up to seven undergraduate credits.

Explanation:

"We Beat The Street: How A Friendship Pact Led to Success" is a non-fictional story and autobiographical account of three doctors co-authored by the Three Doctors (Dr. Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins) and Sharon M. Draper. The novel shares about how the pact of these three doctors helped them to become successful in their careers despite of their criminal neighbourhood.

In Chapter 12, when the three friends get to know about the Pre-Medical Plus program offered by the Seton Hall University, preceeded by a seven-week summer program. This seven week summer program might benefit these three friends to decide their career path, and also earn graduate level of teaching in various subjects. This program will also help them to earn seven undergraduate credit.  

in the problem you wrote said that the taxi charges $0.070 per mile(which would be 7 cents per mile), but then in your suggested equation you have it as $0.70 per mile (which is 70 cents per mile).

the latter seems more realistic, so i will assume that the taxi costs $5.00 and charges $0.70 per mile with tolls costing an additional $3.50. and it asks you to find how far you can travel on $36.50.

let x the number of miles traveled. since the taxi charges $0.70 per mile, multiplying this by the miles traveled (x) will yield the cost of the taxi ride as far as how far it took you. then adding this amount to the cost of the taxi ($5.00) and the additional cost for the tolls ($3.50) will give you the total cost of the taxi ride ($36.50)

that is,

            (0.70)x + 5.00 + 3.50 = 36.50

adding the like terms on the left-hand side of this equation, we arrive at the following:

            (0.70)x + 8.50 = 36.50

subtracting 8.50 from both sides of the equation, we get:

            (0.70)x = 28.00

to solve for x, divide both sides of the equation above by the coefficient of x (that being, 0.70):

            x = 40

thus, you can travel up to 40 miles on $36.50