Question

Customers of a phone company can choose between two service plans for long distance calls. The first plan has a $23 monthly fee and charges an additional $0.11 for each minute of calls. The second plan has no monthly fee but charges $0.15 for each minute of calls. For how many minutes of calls will the costs of the two plans be equal?

Answer 1

Plan 1: 65 minutes, Plan 2: 201 minutes

Explanation:

Not sure if this is the answer that you need but here is the math that i did..

Plan 1: $23 + $0.11/min

$0.11 x 65 minutes will give you a total of $7.15 + the inital $23 = $30.15

Plan 2: $0 + $0.15/min

$0.15 × 201 minutes will give you a total of $30.15

I hope this helps!

Answer 2

575 minutes

Explanation:

this is a systems of equations problem

2 plans, 2 equations

Scenario 1:

$23 is a mandatory fee, 11 cents per minute

x=23+0.11m (x= total cost, m= minutes called)

Scenario 2:

There is no mandatory fee, but there is a higer 15 cents per minute

x=0.15m (y=total cost, m=minutes called)

Set them equal to each other because you want to know when they become equal

23+0.11m=0.15m

23=0.04m

m=575