Question

A pre-paid phone company charges $17.75 as a monthly access fee and $0.13 per minute of calling time.

What will the monthly cost be if you make 176 minutes of calls this month?

Answer 1

$40.63

Explanation:

If the phone company charges $17.75 already, and each minute costs $0.13, then we can do an equation that looks something like this:

17.75 + (0.13 × 176) = total price

We need to figure out how much 0.13 multiplied by 176 is.

0.13 × 176 = 22.88

Now that we figured out that 0.13 multiplied by 176 is equal to 22.88, we need to add the monthly access fee.

22.88 + 17.75 = 40.63

The monthly cost will be $40.63.