a parking garage charges 3 dollars for each of the first three hours. after three hours, the charge is 7 dollars an hour. what is the total cost for five hours of parking? which strategy that would help solve this word problem?

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Shadow · Answer

You could write an equation utilized for instances where there's only customers who've stayed for more than three hours.

$$y = 3 \times 3 + 7x$$

Where y is the total charges, 3 times 3 accounts for the first three hours, multiplied by the cost of $3 per hour, then 7x is where x is the total # of hours over the first three hours, in this instance 2, multiplied by the new rate/charge, which is $7.