Question

Amy has set aside $150 a month for her cell phone bill. The cost for a monthly cell phone plan is a $65 access fee plus $20 per gigabyte of data used. Which expression represents the amount of money Amy has left from her monthly budget after she pays her cell phone bill? 150+65+20g150+65+20g 150−(65+20x)150-(65+20x) 150−(−65−20x150-(-65-20x (150+65)−20g(150+65)-20g

Answer 1

`150-(65+20x)`

Explanation:

So we know that Amy sets aside a total of $150 to pay her bills.

The cost for the monthly cell phone plan is a $65 access fee plus $20 per gigabyte of data used.

In other words, the total cost when using x gigabytes is given by the expression:

`65+20x`

The first term represents the access fee, and the second term represents the cost for x gigabytes.

And since we want to find out the amount of money Amy will have left after using x gigabytes, we subtract this from 150:

`150-(65+20x)`

The above expression will give us the amount of money Amy will have left after paying her cell phone plan.

Our answer is the second choice.