An online video streaming service offers two plans for unlimited streaming. Plan A has a one-time $25 membership fee and is $8 p
er month. Plan B has a $5 membership fee and is $12 per month.
A. Determine when Plan A and Plan B will cost the same amount by solving the
system of equations. Show your work.
you start by putting the plans into an equation then you set them equal to each other. you need to assign a variable for the number of months. we'll call it M. It would look like this:
plan A - 25 + 8M
plan B - 5 + 12M
25 + 8M = 5 + 12M
Then you solve which looks like this:
25 + 8M = 5 + 12M
-8M -8M
25 = 5 + 4M
-5 -5
20 = 4M
/4 /4
5 = M
Now we aren't done after finding out what M equals. We still need to know what each plan will cost. So, we substitute what M equals into the equation. if they both end up equaling the same thing then its equal. if you get two different numbers they aren't. it would look like this:
