Students will read the article "Trouble on the Field" at their current Lexile level and write a paragraph answering the following prompt: Write an argumentative paragraph arguing that Rhode Island lawmakers should OR should not approve Senator Tassoni's proposed legislation?

Be sure to:

1. Include a claim where you choose a side and explain your main reasons for whether or not lawmakers should OR should not approve Senator Tassoni's proposed legislation. 2 points

2. Include a counterclaim. 2 points

3. Include two pieces of evidence. 2 points

4. Include two pieces of commentary. 2 points

5. Include a restatement of your claim. 2 points

in the problem you wrote said that the taxi charges $0.070 per mile(which would be 7 cents per mile), but then in your suggested equation you have it as $0.70 per mile (which is 70 cents per mile).

the latter seems more realistic, so i will assume that the taxi costs $5.00 and charges $0.70 per mile with tolls costing an additional $3.50. and it asks you to find how far you can travel on $36.50.

let x the number of miles traveled. since the taxi charges $0.70 per mile, multiplying this by the miles traveled (x) will yield the cost of the taxi ride as far as how far it took you. then adding this amount to the cost of the taxi ($5.00) and the additional cost for the tolls ($3.50) will give you the total cost of the taxi ride ($36.50)

that is,

            (0.70)x + 5.00 + 3.50 = 36.50

adding the like terms on the left-hand side of this equation, we arrive at the following:

            (0.70)x + 8.50 = 36.50

subtracting 8.50 from both sides of the equation, we get:

            (0.70)x = 28.00

to solve for x, divide both sides of the equation above by the coefficient of x (that being, 0.70):

            x = 40

thus, you can travel up to 40 miles on $36.50