Question

A phone company has a monthly cellular data plan where a customer pays a flat monthly fee and then a certain amount of money per megabyte (MB) of data used on the phone. If a customer uses 80 MB, the monthly cost will be $19.00. If the customer uses MB, the monthly cost will be $. Find a linear equation for the monthly cost of the data plan, C , as a function of x , the number of MB used.

Answer 1

C = 0.175x + 5

Explanation:

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A phone company has a monthly cellular data plan where a customer pays a flat monthly fee $5 and then a certain amount of money per megabyte (MB) of data used on the phone

Given:

• Customer uses 80 MB
• The monthly cost will be $19.00 (flat monthly fee and then a certain amount of money per megabyte (MB) of data used on the phone)

So let:

- C is the cost of the data plan

- x is amount of money per megabyte (MB)

We can form the standard equation:

C = mx + b <=> C = mx + 5

In this situation, we have:

19 = m*80 + 5

<=> m = 0.175

So the a linear equation is: C = 0.175x + 5

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