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A cell phone company charges a monthly fee plus $0.25 for each text message. The monthly fee is $30.00 and you owe $59.50. How many text messages did you have? Write an equation to represent the situation
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A cell phone company charges a monthly fee plus $0.25 for each text message. The monthly fee is $30.00 and you owe $59.50. How many text messages did you have? Write an equation to represent the situation

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The equation would be .25x + 30= 59.50
The reason for this is that you know you will always have 30$ but the .25 depends on how many texts so it needs the x. It is set equal to 59.50 because that is the total.
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