Question

Linda purchase a prepaid phone card for $30. Long distance calls cost $.17 a minute using this card when do use her card. Linda use her card only to make a long distance call if the remaining credit on her card is $22.52, how many minutes did her call last

Answer 1

Answer: her call lasted for 44 minutes

Step-by-step explanation:

Linda purchase a prepaid phone card for $30. This means that the credit on her card is $30.

Long distance calls cost $0.17 each. Linda use her card only to make a long distance call. Assuming she made a total of x minutes of long distance calls, the cost would be $0.17x. The amount remaining on her card will be

30 - 0.17x

if the remaining credit on her card is $22.52, the number of minutes,x that the call lasted will be

22.52 = 30 - 0.17x

0.17x = 30 - 22.52

0.17x = 7.48

x = 7.48/0.17 = 44