Question

Cabletown charges $5 signup fee and a $0.50 charge per video.

Networkflicks charges a $12 signup fee and a $0.15 charge per video. How
many videos do you need to watch in a month for the two companies to cost
the same?

Answer 1

Given parameters:

Signup fee for Cabletown = $5

Charge per video = $0.50

Sign up fee for Networkflicks = $12

Charge per video = $0.15

Unknown:

The number of videos watched in which the cost of both months will be thesame = ?

Solution:

Let the number of videos= x

Now let us set up algebraic equations to solve this problem;

5 + 0.5x = 12 + 0.15x

Collect like terms and solve;

5 - 12 = 0.15x - 0.5x

-7 = -0.35x

x = 20

The number of videos watched will be 20 videos