A phone company charges a $5 monthly service fee and $0.25 for every minute of long-distance call time. If your telephone budget is $8.45, what is the maximum number of minutes of long-distance calls you can make? (Round your answer down to the nearest minute.)
Mathematics · College · Tue Nov 03 2020
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Given:
$5 monthly charge fee
$0.025 per minute for long distance calls.
Determine what is the maximum number of minutes for long distance call that you can make if you have $8.45 as you telephone budget.
Solution:
Subtract first the monthly charge to the total telephone budget, in order to determine how much money is allotted for long distance call.
=$8.45 - $5
= $3.45
Divide $3.45 by $0.025 in order to determine how many minutes you can make for long distance calls.
= $3.45/ $0.025
= 138 minutes
You can make 138 minutes of long distance call.