Solve the Problem B) C) D)

question 22

Multiple Choice

Solve the problem.
-A paddle boat rental company rents paddle boats by the hour. They charge $7.00 per hour for the first 3 rental hours and $5.00 per hour for each additional hour. Write a piecewise function to represent the cost of renting a
Paddle boat as a function of hours it is rented.

• A) \(f ( x ) = \left\{ \begin{array} { l l }
• 7 \llbracket x \rrbracket & \text { if } 0 < x \leq 3 \\
• 21 \llbracket x \rrbracket + 5 \llbracket x - 3 \rrbracket & \text { if } x > 3
• \end{array} \right.\)
• B) \(f ( x ) = \left\{ \begin{array} { l l }
• 7 \llbracket x \rrbracket & \text { if } 0 < x \leq 3 \\
• 7 \llbracket x \rrbracket + 5 \llbracket x - 3 \rrbracket & \text { if } x > 3
• \end{array} \right.\)
• C) \(f ( x ) = \left\{ \begin{array} { l l }
• 7 \llbracket x \rrbracket & \text { if } 0 < x \leq 3 \\
• 21 + 5 \llbracket x - 3 \rrbracket & \text { if } x > 3
• \end{array} \right.\)
• D) \(f ( x ) = \left\{ \begin{array} { l l }
• 7 \llbracket x \rrbracket & \text { if } 0 < x \leq 3 \\
• 5 \llbracket x - 3 \rrbracket & \text { if } x > 3
• \end{array} \right.\)

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Definitions:

Debt-Equity Ratio

A gauge of how much a corporation leans on debt, by dividing all owed sums by the total equity of its stockholders.

Inventory Turnover

A financial ratio that shows how many times a company's inventory is sold and replaced over a period.

Mode

The most recurrent value in a data set.

Most Frequently

Occurring or happening with the highest occurrence or commonality among a set of options or instances.