Aaron took a taxi from his house to the airport. The taxi company charged a pick-up fee of $2 plus $3.50 per mile. The total fare was $58, not including the tip. Which equation could be used to determine xx, the number of miles in the taxi ride?

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let's first notice, the center of the hyperbola is at the origin, since the focus points are equidistantly 3 units away from the origin, that also means that the distance "c" from the center to either focus is 3.

it should also be notable that, the traverse axis for this hyperbola is vertical, or namely over the y-axis and therefore, the positive fraction will be the one with y-variable.

the traverse "a" component or distance from the center to either vertex is not 2, is more than 2, so we can safely put it at √5 ≈ 2.24.