Mason owns a trucking company. For every truck that goes out, Mason must pay the driver $13 per hour of driving and also has an expense of $1 per mile driven for gas and maintenance. On one particular day, the driver drove an average of 30 miles per hour and Mason's total expenses for the driver, gas and truck maintenance were $258. Write a system of equations that could be used to determine the number of hours the driver worked and the number of miles the truck drove. Define the variables that you use to write the system.

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Heaven Rice

19 March, 03:14

Mason owns a trucking company. For every truck that goes out, Mason must pay the driver $13 per hour of driving and also has an expense of $1 per mile driven for gas and maintenance. On one particular day, the driver drove an average of 30 miles per hour and Mason's total expenses for the driver, gas and truck maintenance were $258. Write a system of equations that could be used to determine the number of hours the driver worked and the number of miles the truck drove. Define the variables that you use to write the system.

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Sebastian Mcpherson · Answer 1

Answer: The required system of equations are

y = 30x

13x + y = 258

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent the number of hours

that the driver worked.

Let y represent the number of miles that the truck drove.

For every truck that goes out, Mason must pay the driver $13 per hour of driving and also has an expense of $1 per mile driven for gas and maintenance. If on a particular day, his total expenses for the driver, gas and truck maintenance were $258, it means that

13x + y = 258

On that particular day, the driver drove an average of 30 miles per hour.

Speed = distance/time

It means that

y/x = 30

y = 30x