Riley's parent got a cell phone plan that has a $40 monthly fee for the first phone. For each extra phone, there is a $15 phone service charge and a $10 text service charge. The expression 40 + 15e + 10e represents the total phone bill in dollars, where e is the number of extra phones. Simplify the expression by combining like terms.

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Riley Reilly

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28 January, 19:20

Riley's parent got a cell phone plan that has a $40 monthly fee for the first phone. For each extra phone, there is a $15 phone service charge and a $10 text service charge. The expression 40 + 15e + 10e represents the total phone bill in dollars, where e is the number of extra phones. Simplify the expression by combining like terms.

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Abigayle · Answer 1

Answer:the expression is 40 + 25e

Step-by-step explanation:

The cell phone plan that Riley's parent got has a $40 monthly fee for the first phone.

For each extra phone, there is a $15 phone service charge and a $10 text service charge.

Let e represent the number of extra phones. Therefore, the expression that represents the total phone bill in dollar would be

40 + 15e + 10e

Combining like terms in the expression, it becomes

40 + 25e