#1 You and your family need to take a taxi to get around town on
your vacation. The taxi service charges $7.50 for the initial
pickup of you and your family and $0.25 per mile. Write an
equation to represent this situation. Then, calculate how much
it would cost if you took the taxi for a 12 mile trip.
Equations
Solutions
y = 0.25x + 7.75
А A
$10.50
3
y = 7.50x + 0.25
B
$18.00
y = 0.25x + 7.50
$90.25
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Brittany has designed four different birdcages, each with the same volume: a square pyramid, a cylinder, a cone, and a sphere. the zoo wants to use one of brittany’s designs but plans to change the volume of the cage. find the design change that would result in the birdcage with the greatest volume. a.) increase the area of the base of the square pyramid by a factor of ten. b.) increase the height of the cylinder by a factor of ten. c.) increase the radius of the cone by a factor of ten. d.) increase the radius of a sphere by a factor of ten.