A rental car agency charges $29.00 per day and 25 cents per mile. (a) Calculate the rental charge if you rent a car for 5 days and drive 300 miles. (Round your answer to the nearest cent.) $   (b) Use a formula to express the cost of renting a car as a function of the number of days you keep it and the number of miles you drive. (Let d be the number of days you rent the car, m the number of miles you drive the car, and C the cost in dollars of renting the car.) C(d, m) =  29d+0.25m       (c) It is about 250 miles from Dallas to Austin. Use functional notation to express the cost to rent a car in Dallas, drive it to Austin, and return it in Dallas 1 week later. Use the formula from part (b) to calculate the cost. (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)

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A rental car agency charges $29.00 per day and 25 cents per mile.

(a) Calculate the rental charge if you rent a car for 5 days and drive 300 miles. (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)
$  

(b) Use a formula to express the cost of renting a car as a function of the number of days you keep it and the number of miles you drive. (Let d be the number of days you rent the car, m the number of miles you drive the car, and C the cost in dollars of renting the car.)
C(dm) = 
29d+0.25m
 
 
 

(c) It is about 250 miles from Dallas to Austin. Use functional notation to express the cost to rent a car in Dallas, drive it to Austin, and return it in Dallas 1 week later. Use the formula from part (b) to calculate the cost. (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)
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