X = the number of minutes the phone is used
<u>Plan A:</u>
40¢ per minute ($0.40)
no other costs
<em>Cost for 1 month = 0.4 x</em>
<u>Plan B:</u>
$30 a month, even if you don't use the phone at all
100 free minutes
then 50¢ per minute ($0.50)
Cost for 1 month:
If 'x' is less than 100: <em>Cost = 30</em>
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If 'x' is greater than 100</span>:
Cost = 30 + 0.5(x - 100) (Because the first 100 minutes are free, and
you only pay for minutes past 100. There are [x-100] of those.)
Eliminate parentheses: Cost = 30 + 0.5x - 50
Combine like terms: <em> Cost = 0.5x - 20</em>
Which plan costs more ? It depends on how many minutes you use in a month.
If you use a small number of minutes, Plan A costs you more.
If you use a huge number of minutes, Plan B costs you more.
Where is the crossover point ? It's the number of minutes in one month
where the costs of both plans are equal.
<u>If you use the phone for less than 100 minutes a month,</u>
(where the cost of Plan B starts increasing with each minute):
0.4x = 30
Divide each side by 0.4: <em>x = 75</em>
Less than 75 minutes per month, Plan A costs less.
Past 75 minutes a month, Plan A costs more than $30, so Plan B costs less,
until Plan B starts charging for extra minutes.
<u>If you use the phone for more than 100 minutes a month: </u>
0.4 x = 0.5 x - 20
Add 20 to each side: 0.4 x + 20 = 0.5 x
Subtract 0.4x from each side: 20 = 0.1 x
Multiply each side by 10: <em> 200 = x</em>
There it is.
Now we can combine the results:
-- Less than 75 minutes in a month: Plan A costs less.
-- Between 75-200 minutes in a month: Plan B costs less.
-- More than 200 minutes a month: Plan A costs less again.
Complicated ? Absolutely ! That's why citizens' consumer groups are after
these companies, to try to get them to make their plans more understandable
to regular people. I know from personal experience that even a lot of the
salesmen in the phone stores could not figure this out and give you sound advice.
Consider the sequence: 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, The recursive definition is
<h3><u>Solution:</u></h3>
The given sequence is :- 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, .....
Second term is and so on
On analyzing the above series we can say
<em><u>Each time we want a new term, we add on 3 to previous term which is as follows:-
</u></em>
8 + 3 = 11
11 + 3 = 14
14 + 3 = 17
17 + 3 = 20
20 + 3 = 23
23 + 3 = 26
And so on
<em><u>This recursive step of adding on 3 to the prior term is written in the following general form:</u></em>
Let's check the above recursive definition by substituting n = 2 we should get 11
Thus the required recursive definition is found
Answer:
5, 12, 19, 26, 33
Step-by-step explanation:
Using the recursive rule and a₁ = 5 , then
a₂ = a₁ + 7 = 5 + 7 = 12
a₃ = a₂ + 7 = 12 + 7 = 19
a₄ = a₃ + 7 = 19 + 7 = 26
a₅ = a₄ + 7 = 26 + 7 = 33
The first 5 terms are 5, 12, 19, 26, 33
Answer:
c
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer:
b) -9.25
Step-by-step explanation:
-1/4 = -0.25
-9 + -0.25 = -9.25
-10, -9.75, -9.5, -9.25, -9, -8.75, -8.5, -8.25, -8, -7.75, -7.5, -7.25, -7
Hope this helps!