A cell phone company charges a monthly fee plus $.25 for each text message. The monthly fee is $30 and you owe $59.50. How many text messages do you have?

Answer: you have 118 text messages.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent the number of text messages that you have or sent.

A cell phone company charges a monthly fee plus $.25 for each text message. The monthly fee is $30. This means that the total cost of x sending x messages in a month would be

0.25x + 30

If you owe $59.50, then your total cost is $59.50

Therefore,

59.50 = 0.25x + 30

0.25x = 59.50 - 30

0.25x = 29.5

x = 29.5/0.25

x = 118