Question

Danielle's text messaging plan costs $8 for the first 550 messages and 15¢ for each additional text message. If she owes $8.60 for text messaging in the month of October, how many text messages did she send that month?

Answer 1

Danielle sent 554 text messages that month.

Explanation:

In Oct she owed: $8 + 60¢

Because 15¢ = 1 additional message => 60¢ = 4 additional messages

So Danielle sent 550 messages (=$8) and 4 additional messages (= 60¢)

=> She sent: 550 messages + 4 additional messages = 554 messages

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