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If at first you don’t succeed, shmoop, shmoop again…

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The four Black Eyed Peas are late for a gig.

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They’re determined to have a good good night,

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so they decide to grab a taxi in order to make it to the venue on time.

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The following graph shows the relationship between the cost of a taxi ride and the number

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of miles driven by the taxi to its destination.

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With each Pea paying $2.25, how many miles did the taxi drive during the ride?

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And here are the potential answers…

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To solve this question, we need to take two steps.

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First, we need to figure out how much money the four Peas paid in total.

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Then, we can plug that in as the total cost of the ride to figure out how far the taxi took them.

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There were four people, and each paid $2.25…

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…so we can multiply 4 by $2.25 to get that, in total, they paid $9.

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Must be a celebrity rate. So now, all we have to do is find where $9

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is on the y-axis and then find the corresponding x-value.

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But looking at the graph, there isn’t a nine…

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That’s okay, though… we can figure out where nine is using the points we do know.

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Every two lines we see an increase of four, which means that each line marks an increase of two.

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This means that halfway from one line to the next is 1.

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We want to find where on the y-axis we get nine, which is one more than eight.

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This means we need to go halfway between eight and the line above it. That’s right here.

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Now we have to figure out the scale on the x-axis.

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Every four lines, the distance goes up by eight miles.

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Dividing by four, we can find that each line marks an increase of two miles.

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The vertical line we care about is just before sixteen, which is fourteen.

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So, our answer is (C).

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As in, “Celebrity rate.”

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