Question

Word problem

Your long distance telephone provider offers two plans. Plan A has a monthly fee of $15 and $0.25 per minute. Plan B has a monthly fee of $20 and $0.05 per minute. Write and solve an equation to find the number of minutes that you must talk to have the same cost for each of the plans.

Answer 1

15+ 0.25x = 30

-15 -15

0.25x=15

x=60

So for plan a, you can talk for 1 hr for $30

20+0.05x = 30

-20 -20

0.05x=10

200x=10

Plan B you can talk for 200 mins for 30 dollars.