Question

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Each month your cell phone company charges you $ 40 for your plan plus 2 cents for each text you send. You have $ 120 budgeted for cell phone expenses for the month. Construct an inequality to make a determination about the number of texts you can send each month. Note that you cannot send a fraction of a text. You must send __________ _______________ texts this month in order to stay within your budget.

Answer 1

50 text messages would have to be sent or received in order for the plans to cost the same each month.

Explanation:

x = number of text messages sent

0.2x+40=50

0.2x = 10

5(0.2x) = 5(10)

x = 50

Therefore, 50 text messages would have to be sent or received in order for the plans to cost the same each month.