Question

A cell phone provider offers a plan that costs $20 per month plus $0.20 per text message sent or received. A comparable plan costs

$30 per month but offers unlimited text messaging. Complete parts a. and b. below.
a. How many text messages would have to be sent or received in order for the plans to cost the same each month?
In order for the plans to cost the same.
text messages would have to be sent or received
b. If you send or receive an average of 200 text messages each month which plan would you choose and why?​

Answer 1

They would have sent 5

Answer 2

Explanation:

a)

30=20+0.2m

10=0.2m

50=m

So after sending 20 messages the plans would cost the same.

b)

Obviously from the first part that the unlimited plan is cheaper when sending 200 messages, but the costs numerically would be.

Unlimited plan costs $30 while the other plan costs

20+0.2(200)=$60