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4.3 Exercise 117

Avg difficulty 2.5

Determine whether the lines given by the equations below are parallel, perpendicular, or neither parallel nor perpendicular.

A car rental company offers two plans for renting a car.

Plan A: $25 per day and $0.10 per mile

Plan B: $40 per day with free unlimited mileage

How many miles would you need to drive for plan B to save you money?

OpenStax Algebra and Trigonometry 2e, 4.3 Fitting Linear Models to Data, exercise 117

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