SOLUTION: You budget $100 dollars a month for a cell phone bill. The company you are with charges you a flat rate of $55 each month plus $.50 for every text message. Write and solve an inequ

Question 464853: You budget $100 dollars a month for a cell phone bill. The company you are with charges you a flat rate of $55 each month plus $.50 for every text message. Write and solve an inequality that will tell you the most amount of text messages you could send each month.

Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You budget $100 dollars a month for a cell phone bill. The company you are with charges you a flat rate of $55 each month plus $.50 for every text message. Write and solve an inequality that will tell you the most amount of text messages you could send each month.
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Solve: 55+0.5m <= 100
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Subtract 55 to get:
0.5m <= 45
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Divide both sides by "0.5" to get:
m <= 90 messages
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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