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A cell phone company has a basic monthly plan of $40 plus $0.45 for any minutes used over 700. Before receiving his statement, John saw he was charged a total of $48.10. Write and solve an equation to determine how many minutes he must have used during the month. Be sure to show all of you work and name the variable you use.

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Halle Shelton

Mathematics

14 October, 00:25

I will be marking brainliest for obvious reasons

A cell phone company has a basic monthly plan of $40 plus $0.45 for any minutes used over 700. Before receiving his statement, John saw he was charged a total of $48.10. Write and solve an equation to determine how many minutes he must have used during the month. Be sure to show all of you work and name the variable you use.

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Libby Fitzpatrick · Answer 1

48.10 = 40+0.45x

8.1 = 0.45x

x = 3.645

He has already used 700 minutes plus the additional minutes which is about 4

In total he used about 704 that month