Question

Although not so common now, consider a phone plan that does not have unlimited texting. Your base plan costs you $30 a month and each text sent or received is only 12 cents. Write an equation to describe the total monthly cost of your bill with x text messages and y cost.
In one month 217,000 messages were sent between two brothers in Philadelphia. What was their approximate bill? (This is a true story!)

Answer 1

Answer:

The bill will be $26070.

Step-by-step explanation:

Your base plan costs you $30 a month

And each text sent or received is only 12 cents or $0.12.

Let the messages sent be = x

So, cost for messages become = $0.12x$

Let total bill cost be = y

Now, total bill will comprise of monthly plan charges plus message charges.

So, equation forms:

$y=30+0.12x$

Now, given is that In one month 217,000 messages were sent between two brothers in Philadelphia.

So, their approximate bill will be :

$y=30+0.12(217000)$

=>$y=30+26040$

=> y = 26070

Therefore, bill will be $26070.