A rental car company charges $26.03 per day to rent a car and $0.13 for every mile driven. Malik wants to rent a car, knowing that:
He plans to drive 250 miles.
He has at most $350 to spend.
Which inequality can be used to determine dd, the maximum number of days Malik can afford to rent for while staying within his budget?
Let d be the number of days Malik can rent the car for, and let x be the maximum number of miles Malik can drive within his budget.
The cost of renting the car for d days is 26.03d.
The cost of driving x miles is 0.13x.
The total cost can be represented as the sum of these two costs: 26.03d + 0.13x.
Since Malik has at most $350 to spend, we have the inequality:
26.03d + 0.13x ≤ 350.