Question

A cellular telephone company charges 0.30 per minute or fraction thereof. If, Miguel, a customer of this company, talks on his cell phone for 23.47 minutes, what’s will his charges be for that phone call?

Answer 1

Miguel's call will be rounded up to 24 minutes for billing purposes and at $0.30 per minute, his total telephone charges will be $7.20.

Step-by-step explanation:

To calculate Miguel's telephone charges for a call lasting 23.47 minutes, we must first recognize that the company charges for each minute or fraction thereof. This means that any part of a minute is treated as a full minute for billing purposes. Since Miguel spoke for 23.47 minutes, we will round up to 24 minutes.

The charge per minute is $0.30. Therefore, to find the total charge for Miguel's call, we multiply the number of minutes by the charge per minute:

Total charge = 24 minutes × $0.30 per minute

Total charge = $7.20

So, Miguel's charges for that phone call will be $7.20.