Luke owns a trucking company. For every truck that goes out, Luke must pay the driver $17 per hour of driving and also has an expense of $1.75 per mile driven for gas and maintenance. On one particular day, the driver drove an average of 40 miles per hour and Luke's total expenses for the driver, gas and truck maintenance were $522. 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.

The driver makes $17 for each hour working, so if the driver worked for hh hours, Luke would have to pay him 17h17h dollars. The cost of gas and maintenance is $1.75 per mile, so for mm miles Luke's costs would be 1.75m1.75m dollars. The total cost of the route 17h+1.75m17h+1.75m equals \$522:$522:

17h+1.75m=522

Since the driver drove an avearge of 40 miles per hour, if the driver drove hour, he would have driven 40 miles, and if the driver drove hh hours, he would have driven 40h40h miles, therefore mm equals 40h:40h:

m=40h

Write System of Equations:

17h+1.75m= 522

m=40h

ankitprmr2 ankitprmr2 · Answer 2 · 2021-11-18T11:32:30+01:00

The truck is going for a run for 6 hours and the system of the equation to solve a further problem related to this is [tex]\rm{Cost}=17x+1.75y[/tex]

The following are the different costs of the truck that Luke must be pay while running a truck:

Luke must pay the driver $17 per hour of driving.
A truck has an expense of $1.75 per mile driven for gas and maintenance.

Let ' x ' be the total time of driving a truck in hours.

and ' y ' be the total mile distance that is covered by the truck.

Therefore, the system of the equation for the overall running cost for a truck is given below.

[tex]\rm{Cost}=17x+1.75y[/tex]

Now, On one particular day, the driver drove an average of 40 miles per hour, and Luke's total expenses for the driver, gas and truck maintenance were $522.

Thus,

The total distance traveled by truck is 40x.

That is,

[tex]y=40x[/tex]

Substitute the values and solve them further.

[tex]522=17x+1.75y\\522=17x+1.75 \times 40x\\522=17x+70x\\522=87x\\x=6[/tex]

Thus, the truck is going for a run for 6 hours and the system of the equation to solve the further problems related to this is [tex]\rm{Cost}=17x+1.75y[/tex]

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