1. After quarantine is over, you and your family are planning to rent a van for a 1-day trip to Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA. For the type of van, your family would like to rent, you can choose from the following options:

• Enterprise Rent-A-Car: $50 per day and $0.25 a mile

• Alamo Car Rental: $45 per day and $0.35 a mile

• Budget Car Rental: $40 per day and $0.30 a mile

• Hertz Car Rental: $30 per day and $0.45 a mile

• Thrifty Car Rental: $35 per day and $0.50 a mile


(a) Choose two of the car rental companies above that you would like to compare prices for and write a mathematical model to represent the cost of renting a van from the two companies.


Rental Company Choice Mathematical Model

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(b) Graph these mathematical models in each blank graph provided on the next page. Make sure your model A matches graph A and your model B matches graph B. Please label the graph axes appropriately.