Amber is on a family cell phone plan with 2 other family members. The family gets 720 shared cell phone minutes a month, each family is limited to his or her equal fair share of minutes each month and calls between family members cost zero minutes. How many minutes per day does Amber have to call her friends without going over her monthly minutes if there are 30 days in that month?

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Cynthia Patel

Mathematics

10 December, 04:31

Amber is on a family cell phone plan with 2 other family members. The family gets 720 shared cell phone minutes a month, each family is limited to his or her equal fair share of minutes each month and calls between family members cost zero minutes. How many minutes per day does Amber have to call her friends without going over her monthly minutes if there are 30 days in that month?

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Mike Jimenez · Answer 1

Amber plus 2 family members = 3 total people on the plan.

They share the minutes equally so divide the minutes by 3 to find how many she can use:

720 / 3 = 240 minutes per month.

Now divide the monthly minutes by 30 days:

240 / 30 = 8 minutes per day.