A cell phone company charges a monthly fee plus $0.25 for each text message. The monthly fee is $30.00 and you owe $59.50. How many text messages did you have? Write an equation using x as the variable and then solve the equation.
The equation would be 59.50 = 30 + .25x.You woould solve by subtracing 30 from 59.50, and you get 29.5. Then dividing .25 by that, and you get 118. So you sent 118 texts.
Answer: 2 text
Step-by-step explanation:
1 text costs a monthly fee + $0.25
monthly fee = $30.00
1 text = $30.00 + $0.25 =$30.25
Using proportion
1text = $30.25
X text = $59.50
Cross multiply
X × $30.25 = $59.50 × 1
Divide bothside by $30.25
X = $59.50 / $30.25
X = 1.966
X = 2 approximately
Therefore number of texts = 2