ccooley wrote:
carcass wrote:
For each trip, a taxicab company charges $4.25 for the first mile and $2.65 for each additional mile or fraction thereof. If the total charge for a certain trip was $62.55, how many miles at most was the trip?
A. 21
B. 22
C. 23
D. 24
E. 25
A. 21
B. 22
C. 23
D. 24
E. 25
Interesting. The 'at most' phrasing tells me that I need to be very careful. It would be quite easy to accidentally pick an answer that's 1 bigger or 1 smaller than the right answer. The problem asks for thelargest number of miles, so
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