Your favorite peer-to-peer ridehailing service has the following price structure for rides in your neighborhood:
  • base fee
  • per mile
  • per minute
  • service fee
Suppose you use sometimes use this service for your 7 mile trip to work in the morning. Let represent the price of the ride, where is the length of time the ride takes (in minutes).
  1. Calculate the price for a trip taking 7 minutes.
    Answer: dollars
  2. What is the formula for
    Answer:
  3. From your experience, you know that if you leave at your usual time ( a.m.), the ride takes about minutes. The ride time increases when you leave later in the morning, taking about minutes if you leave at a.m..
    Let represent the length of time (in minutes) the trip takes you, where the input is the number of hours after a.m.
    Which expression represents the length of time the trip takes if you leave at
    Answer:
  4. Use function notation (with and ) to write a composition representing the price of a ride to work if you leave at
    Answer: