Question

lauren wants to keep her cell phone bull under $60 per month. Her current cell phone plan is $30 per month plus $0.50 per text. Write an inequality to represent the number of texts t, Lauren can send each month while staying within her budget

Answer 1

The correct answer is t < 60.

Explanation:

Lauren wants to keep her cell phone bill below $60 per month.

Lauren's current cellphone plan charges her a fixed price of $30 and per text price for one text is $0.50.

Let Lauren sends t texts in a complete month.

Total money spent on texts in a month is given by $ (0.50 × t)

Therefore Lauren's total spent in a month is given by $ (30 + (0.50 × t)).

But this amount should be under $60 as per as the given problem.

∴ 30 + (0.50 × t) < 60

⇒ (0.50 × t) < 30

⇒ t <
`(30)/(0.50)`

⇒ t < 60.

So in order to keep her phone monthly bill under $60, Lauren should keep her number of texts below 60.