Question

A collect call costs $5.99 to connect plus 99 cents per minute. What is the cost of a 6 minute call?​

Answer 1

$11.93

Explanation:

You can write an equation to represent this scenario, where x is the number of minutes spent on the call and y is the total cost of the call.

`y=0.99x + 5.99`

Plug in 6 for x:

`y=0.99(6)+5.99`

Multiply 6 x 0.99, representing the fact it costs 99 cents per each minute spent on the call:

`y=5.94+5.99`

Add the sum of the $5.99 cost to connect the call, plus the charge ($5.94) for spending six minutes:

`y=11.93`

Your answer is $11.93!