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Jeremy wants to rent skates and go skating. he wants to spend a certain number of hours ice skating and realizes that it would cost the same at both rinks. for how many hours does jeremy want to skate? do not include units in your answer.

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Final answer:

Without skate rental and rink entrance fee information, we cannot calculate the number of hours Jeremy intends to skate.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how many hours Jeremy wants to skate, we need the missing information about the cost of skate rentals and the entrance fee for both rinks. Without this information, we cannot calculate the exact number of hours Jeremy intends to skate. If we had data such as a fixed cost for skate rental and a per-hour rate, we could equate the total costs from both rinks and solve for the number of hours. Unfortunately, the information provided does not pertain to the ice skating scenario but rather discusses Jeremy's options for contacting Jasmine with a limited budget for transportation and phone calls.

The information given does detail how one could calculate Jeremy's budget options. If he has $10 to spend with round trips costing $2 and phone calls costing $0.05 per minute, Jeremy's budget constraint would be represented by the equation Budget = PRTX QRT + PPC × QPC, where PRT is the price of a round trip, QRT is the quantity of round trips, PPC is the price per phone call minute, and QPC is the quantity of phone call minutes.

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