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John's cell phone company charges him a flat fee of $27.50 per month plus $.12 a

minute for every minute he is on the phone. If his bill was $66.62, how many minutes
was he on his phone?
326 minutes
35.5 minutes
O 348 minutes

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answer: 326 minutes

explanation: 66.62 (bill) - 27.50 (monthly fee) = 39.12
39.12 is now the total of the charges for every minute he was on his phone. so we divide that number by the fee of .12 to find how many minutes he was on the phone, 326 minutes.
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