SOLUTION: the rate for a particular international person to person telephone call is $.43 for the first minute, $.32 for each additional minute, and $2.10 service charge. If the cost of a ca
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Question 209769: the rate for a particular international person to person telephone call is $.43 for the first minute, $.32 for each additional minute, and $2.10 service charge. If the cost of a call is $5.73,how long did the person talk?
Answer by tutor_paul(519) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can write an equation for this as follows:
Where x is the amount of time talking minus one minute.
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Solve for x:
But remember, you need to add on that first minute to this result to get the total talk time:
Total Minutes talked = 11
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Good Luck,
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