SOLUTION: The phone company NextFell has a monthly cellular plan where a customer pays a flat monthly fee and then a certain amount of money per minute used on the phone. If a customer uses

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Question 1144987: The phone company NextFell has a monthly cellular plan where a customer pays a flat monthly fee and then a certain amount of money per minute used on the phone. If a customer uses 210 minutes, the monthly cost will be $59. If the customer uses 700 minutes, the monthly cost will be $108. A) Find the slope and explain what it means.

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

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y, cost for a month
x, minutes used
m, cost change per minutes used change; the per minute rate
b, flat fee

Two points described are (210, 59) and (700, 108).
The cost per minute is ;

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