The cost of a taxi ride is 5 dollars plus 50 cents per mile. write an algebraic explanation that models the cost of a taxi ride of m miles

Step-by-step explanation:

I will call the total cost of the ride by the letter , and the number of miles (acording to the problem) is .

For each mile 0.5 cents are charged, so if m miles are traveled, will be charged for those miles.

Then the total cost of the taxi ride is

the 5 in the equation is because the taxi ride is 5 dollars initially, and then the 0.5*m is the cost for the miles traveled.

the answer is b.

step-by-step explanation:

identity property is where 0+whatever number=whatever number. basically 0+ a number.