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Revision as of 17:47, 22 December 2020
Contents
Problem
A cell phone plan costs 
dollars each month, plus 
cents per text message sent, plus 
cents for each minute used over 
hours. In January Michelle sent 
text messages and talked for 
hours. How much did she have to pay?
Solution
The base price of Michelle's cell phone plan is dollars.
If she sent text messages and it costs cents per text, then she must have spent 
cents for texting, or dollars. She talked for hours, but 
will give us the amount of time that she has to pay an additional amount for.
hours 
minutes.
Since the price for phone calls is cents per minute, the additional amount Michelle has to pay for phone calls is 
cents, or 
dollars.
Adding 
dollars 
dollars 
.
Video Solution
~savannahsolver
See also
| 2011 AMC 12A (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | |
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| All AMC 12 Problems and Solutions | |
| 2011 AMC 10A (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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| All AMC 10 Problems and Solutions | ||
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