Question

Renting a BIXI bike in montreal costs various prices depending on the time frame. Delaney is interested in renting a bike for the 3-day osheaga festival in July. The rate is $5 for a 24-hour period and $1.75 for every 30 additional minutes following that. Write a linear equation to model the cost, C of the rental per hour, H

Answer 1

Linear equation

$Cost=5+(1.75\times2)h$

$Cost=5+3.5 h$

Where 5 is fixed cost, 3.5 is change in unit cost and h is number of hours variation.