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In this GED Math Equation, figure out how far Dmitri has travelled in his sleigh ride down the hill.

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke too

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Sure brought to you by taxi driver You're talking to

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me You talking to me Our taxi driver charged the

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base price of two fifty for ride plus a dollar

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twenty per mile travel Which of the following expressions represents

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the cost in dollars of writing M miles in the

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taxi and here's potential answers number Wait So we have

00:28

to figure this thing out before we get scammed out

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of her entire life Savings are there's A base price

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is two Fifty for the ride plus about twenty for

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each mile How do we express that In mathematical terms

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while looking at the choice is the easiest way to

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solve this one is to realize that the two fifty

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is a base price and isn't gonna be multiplied by

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anything Yes it's there it's going to be added to

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whatever the mile cost is and choices bc and the

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all have two point five getting multiplied just to be

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sure Let's double check That is what we're looking for

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It's got one point two times the m does this

01:02

make sense Because it's a buck twenty per mile than

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the two point five is tacked on at the end

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So yeah looks good in our final answer is a

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and now we can get the cabby a formula of 00:01:12.817 --> [endTime] our own We can calculate oh us in medical

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